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I don't know that the prescription plan is as enormous as the Great Society. Could even be a step towards privatization of medicare.

Bush is asking for $300 billion for ten years. The Democrats are offering $1 trillion. If this scam passes, the price of admission will be somewhere in that range. Then...
The baby boomers retire and qualify for the freebie plan. Each year thereafter will see a larger constiuency for the drug handout. How will it possibly be privatized?
The path to privatizing unearned subsidies ("entitlements") requires a weaning of the populace from government dependency, not a further encouragement of it. Yet Bush is promoting more dependency, hoping that the beneficiaries will be grateful to the GOP. How does this lead to a smaller and less expensive government? Who's going to pay for it?
Further, how does anyone really think that once seniors come to expect this latest freebie, that the Democrats won't outbid the GOP for their votes, as they have for decades?

How about the Democrats currently running for President? I think most (if not all of them) are for a "onepayer" 100% government provided healthcare system. Which one of these guys do you prefer? And which one of these Democrats do you trust with appointing the next crop of Supreme Court Justices?

Can't think of a one, but I can't see as that's any reason to ignore President Bush's largesse with our money.
Stopping Democrats' big government plans is easy: vote against them.
The second task is trickier: how do we stop the big government plans of Republicans like President Bush?

The second task is trickier: how do we stop the big government plans of Republicans like President Bush?

I have to laugh. You guys point to Reagan, yet, when he walked out of the White House in 1988, government was TWICE as big as when he entered.

Hell, Pat Buchanan never advocated smaller government; he just wanted to use big government for his causes.

The only true voice for "small government" are the pipsqueaks in the Libertarian Party, and they're hanging onto the toilet bowl rim by their fingernails.

It's not that tricky. Just takes time and perseverance. Keep voting out the Democrats and after we get a solid majority start on the Rhinos. Prevent as many liberals as possible from holding office or sitting on the bench. Make government more conservative by making it less liberal. Makes no sense whatsoever to turn it back over to the Democrats now. Keep the Whitehouse, keep the majority in the congress, and keep replacing liberal justices with conservatives. There is no other way. Stay the course. Damn the torpoedoes, full speed ahead!