Then how do you explain Bush ("the conservative") who has expanded every one of those with the help of a majority in the house?
This is what's known as 'cognitive dissonance'.
But that's child's play for those truly dedicated to preserving established monopolies, perquisites, and privileges.
Cognitive dissonance is the price of success in all modern and progressive small 's' socialist nations, of which the U.S.A. is one!
1. Cut federal spending on libraries by $39 million.
2. Cut $35 million in federal funding for doctors to get advanced pediatric training.
3. Cut federal funding for research into renewable energy sources by 50%.
4. Cut federal funding for research into cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks by 28%.
5. Approved the sending of letters by Interior Department appointee Gale Norton to state officials soliciting suggestions for opening up national monuments for oil and gas drilling, coal mining, and foresting by private companies.
6. Reduced by 86% the federal Community Access Program for public hospitals, clinics and providers of care for people without insurance.
7. Cut $60 million from a Boy's and Girl's Clubs of America federal program for public housing.
8. Proposed to eliminate a federal program to help communities prepare for natural disasters.
9. Pulled out of the 1997 Kyoto Treaty global warming agreement.
10. Cut $200 million of federal work force training for dislocated workers.
11. Eliminated federal funding for the Wetlands Reserve Program, which encourages farmers to maintain wetlands habitat on their property.
12. Cut a federal program to provide childcare to low-income families as they move from welfare to work.
13. Cut a federal program that provided prescription contraceptive coverage to federal employees.
14. Cut $700 million in capital funds for repairs in public housing.
15. Cut the budget of the Environmental Protection Agency by $500 million.
16. Rescinded the rule that mandated increased energy-saving efficiency regulations for central air conditioners and heat pumps.
17. Repealed workplace ergonomic rules designed to improve worker health and safety.
18. Banned federal aid to international family planning programs that offer abortion counseling with other independent funds.
19. Closed the White House Office for Women's Health Initiatives and Outreach.
20. Announced intention to open up Montana's Lewis and Clark National Forest to oil and drilling.
21. Proposes to re-draw boundaries of nation's monuments, which would technically allow oil and gas drilling "outside" of national monuments.
22. Gutted the White House AIDS Office.
23. Cut the federal Community Oriented Policing Services program.
24. Refused to fund continued cleanup of uranium-slag heap in Utah.
25. Refused to fund continued litigation of the government's tobacco company lawsuit.
26. Proposed a $2 trillion tax cut.
27. Cut $15.7 million earmarked for states to investigate cases of child abuse and neglect.
28. Proposed elimination of the "Reading is Fundamental" program that gives free books to poor children.
29. Proposes to reverse regulation protecting 60 million acres of national forest from logging and road building.
30. Eliminated federal funding for the "We the People" education program.
31. Reduced the Low Income Home Assistance Program by 40%.