[Southack]

"The most important thing to me is smaller, less intrusive govt. I don't see that as an endorsement of anything Bush has done."

Would you like to see such things? Seriously?

Bush ended the federal regulations that required Environmental Impact Statements from logging prior to building new logging roads as firebreaks. That's a less intrusive government.

Bush cut the red tape for introducing new Genetically modified food and seeds. Again, that's a less intrusive, smaller government.

Bush cut the CO2 regulations that were choking off the electricity surplus to California.

Bush stopped the new "ergonomic" rules that OSHA was about to implement that would have shuttered every home-based business in America.

But cut the double-tax on dividends. That's less paperwork and a less intrusive government. Ditto for Bush cutting our federal income taxes (e.g. initial refunds got mailed out without citizens even filing forms).

Bush has put some 700,000 federal jobs up for bid by private citizens/companies, too.

[Nanodik]

Would you like to see such things? Seriously?

Which is offset 10 fold by the things he has done to increase govt. Do we need to go over that list? I had high hopes for Bush after 9/11, but you point to a bunch of small moves on the plus side whereas all the big initiatives have been toward larger govt. Seriously, you want to compare red-tape on genetically modified seeds to the largest expansion of Medicare in a generation?