George W. Bush was leading the charge to spend on stuff hardly any pubbie, let alone conservative, wanted.
Overly generous and unaccountable to NYC for 9/11 ($20B, iirc), letting Kennedy write the education bill, additional bennies tacked on to an already strained Medicare, etc.
Even Limbaugh was frustrated at the proliferate spending by Bush43, and the accompanying encouragement of Congress to let go of what little spending constraints they use to consider.
Dubya loved those domestic programs, just as his dad did, and just as Jed would.
If the Republicans are dumb enough to nominate Jeb, the Democrats will win the White House for the third time in a row. They haven’t done that since 1940.