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Quite true, but you forget the WHY's of it......
Bush compromised what otherwise would the Dems BIG HAMMER platforms, used to prove hoe Repubs hate the people, in commercial after commercial....
When he took thier ideas as his own, they were left flat-footed and disorganized...
I don't like it, but I DO understand why.....
If Romney doesn't sign, he gets beat up over this, and any hopes of being a National Candidate are GONE, while the bill passes through override anyway....
Until we get LARGE MAJORITIES we are forced into compromises we may not like.
I have forgotten nothing. The "WHY" you speak of is crystal clear. On domestic spending, Bush and the GOP Congress don't govern as fiscal conservatives. Period.
>>>>Until we get LARGE MAJORITIES we are forced into compromises we may not like.
BULLoney! Reagan significantly reduced welfare state over his eight years in office and actually cut non-defense related discretionary spending. Reagan didn't have a GOP House. The Democrats controlled the purse strings in the 1980`s. Bush has had a GOP controlled Congress. Everything the GOP Congress has sent to Bush, he's signed into law. Not a single veto on any spending bills. On federal spending, Bush is no fisal cosnervative.