[Scenic Sounds]

Don't you wish they were moving to the right, though?

Well, it's getting complicated these days.

If the President were to insist on a "balanced budget" (long thought to be a conservative position) and advocated that tax rates be adjusted (even upward, if necessary) to eliminate the current deficit, would that be a move to the right or to the left?

If the President had vetoed the bill prohibiting human cloning on the grounds that it is not within the federal government's enumerated powers, would that have been a move to the right or to the left? ;-)

[gcruse]

Eliminating the deficit by reducing the size of the federal government would have been moving to the right. And since the constitution enumerates no medical or scientific powers to the feds, vetoing a federal bill outlawing research into these areas would be moving to the right. We are so used to ignoring the Tenth Amendment, we don't even think in those terms anymore.

[carenot]

If the President had vetoed the bill prohibiting human cloning on the grounds that it is not within the federal government's enumerated powers, would that have been a move to the right or to the left? ;-)

I don't know if that would be right or left.
But he would be right.