George Bush also seems somewhat of a moderate, which I think most people were aware of prior to his election.
I actually think there is a place for some of these proposals. My evaluation is given below:
(-) Huge education spending bill (i.e. Federal Local School Board Bribery Act) which liberal Democrats love that doesn't mention a word about choice or local control.
(+) Food stamps for immigrants.
(-) Largest spending bill in American History. The first to exceed 2 trillion dollars.
(-) The Airport Security Bill that completely takes control of over 28,000 screening jobs. Now it seems that they don't even have to be high school graduates either. The big difference, they can't be fired.
(+) 100 million for welfare moms.
(?) Hugely Expanding Clinton's Amercorps boondoggle that all conservatives railed against.
(-) Kowtowing to law breaking illegal immigrants by proposing amnesty. Speaking of illegal immigrants who sneak across the border; "And we've got to respect that, seems like to me, and treat those people with respect," he added. "I remind people all across our country: Family values do not stop at the border."
(-) . 38 Billion for a new Homeland Security bureaucracy that allots a 20% increase for border control. Guess what. It goes to our problematic Canadian border, with not a dollar spent on the Mexican border. Read it for yourself
(-) The Orwellian "Patriot Act" that gives Federal authorities carte blanche to rifle through all of your digital communications and essentially, rob your house without notice.
(-) 71.5 billion over 10 years for government health care.
(-) Not releasing appropriate documents on Clinton and FBI corruption.
Presumably this means *legal* immigrants.
(+) Food stamps for legal immigrants.
(-) Food stamps for illegal immigrants.