[MichiganConservative]

...except abortion, oil spills and being the world's policeman.

Don't forget drugs. Conservatives are all about growing and feeding the beast when it involves militarizing police to kick in the doors of "bad people" who smoke and sell substances the government deems "bad".

[Huck]

Then there's federal tort reform, where the Congress, without any delegated power that I can find, take over regulation of state courts and state jury awards.

The politicians simply adopt the big government ideas of both sides, and adopt the small government ideas of neither side, and VOILA, here we are!