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Reagan was saddled with ending the Cold War or don't you care about that? If you remember (?) his defense budgets increased and Congress refused to go along with spending cuts in domestic programs though his tax cuts fueled the good times in the 90s.

The welfare reform aka cuts was instigated by Gingrich and the conservatives then. What has happened is that some states have taken over and in many cases continued to the bad old policies of the past. In this case it is the states that have expanded, not the feds.

Now Dubya is doing a heroic job in cutting in the face of an entrenched liberal establishment and getting defense done. Pushing SS reform, prescription reform with privatization in the future, expanding school choice, etc. Damn good I's say. Can you imagine the alternative?

I know, I know. I've heard countless excuses about why government expansion cannot be curtailed. Still, the government--whether "conservative" or "liberal"--continues to expand in spite of all the "heroism" you mentioned. The real "hero" would be the "conservative" who actually reduces the size of the Federal Government.

BTW, I'm a long-term Freeper, a conservative AND I voted for Bush last time. So, I'm not a plant...:-). Just disagree with you and many others about Bush.