Considering that the federal government takes approximately 1/4 of this nation's income, and neo-conservative G.W. Bush's last budget proposed a whopping 9% increase in spending (i.e. much more than the <3% annual rate of inflation), I'd say neo-conservatives' version of "semi-limited" is about 5 times the size I support.
1. I have nothing against increasing spending in time of war FOR THE MILITARY.
2. Perhaps you have forgotten political realities, like the Democrat filibuster or teh existance of 5 liberal Republicans in the Senate. Bush has to give a compromise bill.
He wis willing to trade some additional spending on domestic matter for spending on military matters.
Politics is ugly. Ideologues refuse to see this.
It's a shame neoconservatives don't support a federal government limited to the size authorized by the Constitution.
Neither do many other types of conservatives.