[Hop A Long Cassidy]

Here's what Bush can do to show he's "tilting to the right:"

- Announce a tax credit for parents that educate their children privately. The cost of tuition and books can be CREDITED against their income tax, dollar for dollar.

- Announce that to help fund this tax loss, the Dept. of Education will be abolished.

Now that's tilting to the right.

[LiveFree99]

Good idea. I see your Dept. of Education and raise you one Dept. of Energy and one DHS.

Getting rid of federal departments will never happen, of course. I call it the Brezhnev Doctrine of government: Once a federal department is established it can never be abolished. Ah, for the good old days when President Reagan actually had the courage to (gasp!) propose the elimination of cabinet-level departments.