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.
I wrote, "It's a shame neoconservatives don't support a federal government limited to the size authorized by the Constitution."
rmlew replied, "Neither do many other types of conservatives."
Yes, that's my primary complaint about conservatives. (It goes without saying that my complaint in that regard holds even more strongly for faux "liberals.")