[weikel]

I don't think Bush needs approval from Congress though but I would prefer Saudi Arabia as a target to Iraq. The real axis of evil is Saudi Arabia( both its people and government), Iran( mainly its government), and Egypt( mainly its people not its government).

Whats your fathers position on abolishing all welfare and social programs, subsidies, the IRS, the WOD etc and cutting the vast array of red tape strangling business.

[ltlflwr]

I'll ask him on the other issues. As for the IRS, my father is in favor of abolishing the personal income tax. Read more about his tax position here.

[Frank Creel]

As for welfare and subsidies, I am a strict contructionist of Article One Sec. 8 and very much opposed to an expansive reading of the "general welfare" clause (which Madison rightly pointed out would have the effect of negating Art. One Sec. 8's enumeration of powers).
The part of the War on Drugs aimed at destroying crops overseas and interdicting supplies is a waste of resources, which should be directed toward reducing internal demand. That, in turn, is primarily the job of parents, schools and churches, but it would also be nice to have capital punishment for drug kingpins, with the only escape from the death penalty being a plea bargain based on a capital conviction of someone higher up in the supply chain. And, finally, such laws should be enacted by the sovereign states, not by the federal government, which, because power corrupts, seems to have the nasty habit of making everything it touches rotten to the core. If there weren't so much money in the drug business, fueled principally by American insatiability for the stuff, overseas poppy and coca farmers would be planting something else, and drug kingpins wouldn't be so wealthy that they can raise private armies.