[LibLieSlayer]

"Do you really think we can afford the huge increases in education spending or the ridiculous medicare drug program?"

Yes, considering it is actually making a difference in educating our youth. When the NEA is bitching constantly about NCLB, it must be doing something right!

Tom Delay explained in his interview with Rush, that in the long-run, the Senior Drug bill IS saving us a tremendous amount of money.

"What should be even more important to conservatives is where exactly in the constitution is the US government authorized to enact such programs?"

It all started when that UNCONSTITUTIONAL INCOME TAX was instituted. Try to overturn that demon, and the battle will be over!

LLS

[Badray]

You may have changed parties, but you still have a long way to go before being a conservative.

Good intentions and saving money don't make something constitutional and constitutionality alone is (or should be) the deciding factor on whether something is enacted by government.

[Straight Vermonter]

"Do you really think we can afford the huge increases in education spending or the ridiculous medicare drug program?"

Yes, considering it is actually making a difference in educating our youth.

Sure it is.

"The system is working. That's what's important for people to understand," Bush said.

But the president did not mention some of the test's less flattering results. The fourth-grade reading performance was essentially flat, and in eighth grade, reading scores dropped.

Spending more has always done wonders for test scores.