[mikenola]

I agree, Bush can't get a conservative agenda put through overnight. It wouldn't be palatable politically to suddenly dissolve Dept. of Education, HUD, EPA, (my secret dream) and replace the graduated income tax with something more fair.

The best, repeat, best thing we can do to support Bush in advancing a conservative agenda, is to lobby our representatives to gets Bush's judicial nominees put through. If the Republicans have to use the "nuclear option" so be it.

With strict constitutionalist, non-activist jurists on the federal bench, and hopefully on the SCOTUS, the public interest conservative law firms and private citizens can start deconstructing the welfare state. And that will outlive Bush's term in office, even if Hillary is elected in 08. That's what will start getting back to limited government. IMO.

[TBP]

But what if he acts like his father and tries to fill the Supreme Court with justices who are not limited=government constitutionalists. Remember, Stevens, Souter, O'Connor, and in an earlier day Earl Warren and William Brennan were all Republican appointees.