[Diddle E. Squat]

This is a President that has increased spending at a greater rate than any President since Lyndon B. Johnson,

So using your logic that it is the President, not the Congress, who ultimately decides how much is spent, you thus blame Ronald Reagan, and not the Dem congresses he dealt with, for the budget deficits of the 80's? You'd be in agreement with Tom Daschle, but...

And don't forget the effect of Jim Jeffords.

[Ol' Sparky]

The difference is that Bush has a Republican congress and Reagan was stuck with a Democratic one. Bush has strong armed Republicans into voting for huge government spending bills like the prescription drug plan for seniors that wouldn't have had a chance of passing if a Democrat had proposed it to the same Congress.

Republicans in charge has now lead to the greatest expansion of government since Lyndon B. Johnson. How can anyone say in regard to the size of government and expansion of socialism that there is any difference between the two parties?