[Dane]

I was betrayed

You were not. Everything Bush has done was in his 2000 campaign platform.

IMO, you were probably to busy with your drama class to read it.

[Mike4Freedom]

Everything Bush has done was in his 2000 campaign platform.

You mean that:
attacking Iraq constitutes a "humble foreign policy".
Raiding medical marijuana patients in free states constituties "letting the states decide?
Half trillion dollar deficits constitutes fiscal responsibility
Medicare drug benefit is what conservatives do

[gcruse]

There IS a difference.  Rather than having a socially liberal government hampered by a conservative congress,
we have a socially conservative, fiscally liberal administration.  It is, in effect, a new philosophy without a name.  In appearance, it is the mirror image of libertarian, which is socially liberal  and fiscally conservative.

What the contours of this new beast?  What it looks like so far is the heavy hand of a religion-based agenda whose funding is limited only by the size of the American pocketbook and ability to repay trillions in debt over the next generation.  Thus, 'compassionate conservative' is all 'compassion,  no conservatism, in the form of funding every interest group to insure having four more years of implementing the new Moral Order.

The steel tariffs along with billions in agriwelfare showed the willingness buy votes as the taxpayer's expense.  The easily foreseen failure of the tariffs to win control of the rust belt in the 2002 election should have been a wake up call that the designers of the new order have unrealistic expectations, with an alarming tendency to misjudge the consequences of their actions.

Senior prescriptions plans that do not require means testing, a de facto policy of open borders, and rejuvenated funding of the NEA, all point the way to an Open Wallet Policy worse even than that of LBJ.

What might be expected in the second term?

Abortion will come under heavy pressure, Ashcroft and his minions will delete right-to-die in states where the electorate has had to nerve to implement it, along with medical marijuana, the right of a citizen to the privacy of his home and papers, and the continuing destruction of the Tenth Amendment.

This is a new ball game, Congressman Paul.  It is a re-engineering of the Republic.  When the Democrats do manage to get back into power, they will have new levers of centralized power Bill Clinton would have killed for.  Heck, he probably did.

[B4Ranch]

"IMO, you were probably to busy with your drama class to read it."

What is it with you assholes who feel that making personal attacks is debating? Sorry but you didn't tick me off, you disgust me!

Be proud, you are very likey the recipient of the very first personal attack I've ever made on a public forum.