[Conservative til I die]

Rush favored the $200 billion debt financed war to build a welfare state in Iraq, surely he can't seriously complain about free drugs for seniors?

Military expenditures = authorized by the Constitution, understood by conservatives to be an obligation of the federal government. Federal subsidies for pills for greedy old farts = unConstitutional and obvious vote-pandering by the CINC.

[JohnGalt]

Debt financed wars, seen as anti-conservative for well over 150 years.

Even Wilson had the courtsey to get war bonds.

Once the printing press starts to solve some immediate emergency welfare follows. It was only the recent generations of so-called 'conservatives' easily frightened by cave dwellers, that hysterics allowed for the DC-tax regime to launch endless wars abroad and endless welfare at home.