Bush has consecutively reduced discretionary spending in the budget every year he has been in office.
President Bush has threatened 39 vetoes of Congressional efforts to exceed his spending authorizations. Congress has backed down every time.
Bush's reductions in spending are now lower than inflation. His tax cuts have increased government revenue which is further reducing CBO deficit estimates.
Representations of Bush as not being fiscally conservative are FALSE.
Moreover, there are ridiculous arguments that portray Bush as having tyrannical powers over budget when the Constitution clearly gives congress control.
Bush has acted to reduce government spending.
If you had paid any attention during the 2000 Bush - Gore presidential debates you would have known that for the last 6 years..
Gore and Bush were in agreement on 90% of the issues..
Most of the disagreement was on details and the rest was politics and name calling.
I don't mean to be derisive by saying that, it's just that it's always been pretty obvious to me, at least, that Bush was a moderate and has always been so..
He may be a Republican, but so is McCain..
He was never a conservative, republicans have just played on conservatives fear of a Democrat congress and presidency to get their votes..
From now on, I only vote for certified conservative candidates..
I held my nose and voted for Bush twice.. For the sake of the republican whiners and hoping for a principled, conservative congress and administration..
It won't happen again..