[iconoclast]

Could W. be using our capacity to spend to defeat domestic liberalism? The 'Rats have been a cancer on this society for a century and a half. It's time to terminate them.

So we wind up with a huge federal government beyond the wildest dreams of Dems, but with plutocrat Republicans sitting on top of it?

Beautiful. Reminiscent of the old Viet Nam slogan ... we had to destroy the village in order to save it.

[PeoplesRepublicOfWashington]

Reagan used our capacity to spend to win the Cold War. I'm glad that he did it so effectively and in a virtually bloodless fashion. In my mind domestic liberalism is as insidious as global communism (the former is a subset of the latter). I'm willing to use the power of the American purse to extirpate the enemy within. Once that's done we can easily put the country back on track.