[austinTparty]

Maybe it's a Texas thing; bigger this, bigger that, bigger handouts.

Them's fightin' words.

This administration has been responsible for a huge expansion in the size of government. True conservatives ought to be more than seriously concerned about that. Never give your own president any powers that you don't want the opposition to have... Government exists to secure our rights, not to fund pork barrel studies, hand out free pills, give you warm fuzzies or pat you on the head when you're good or wag its finger at you when you're bad. Sheesh.

[Dan from Michigan]

Never give your own president any powers that you don't want the opposition to have...

Exactly. That's what scares me even about the "Patriot Act" in 2005.