[JohnGalt]

Unreconstructed paleo-libertarian..."The Constitution was a coup d'etat, bring back the Articles of Confederation," but you would think I was crazy if I posted comments like that.

Much like a 'conservative' who thinks somehow we won't be paying $3 billion to friends of Pat Robertson and Friends of the Kennedy's in Africa next year.

[Mr. Mojo]

I know where that money's going (in Africa), and that's precisely why I'm against Bush's proposal. This is not an issue conservatives - or "paleo-libertarians", for that matter - can afford to concede to the leftists/Dems, as you suggest we do. Big gov't has to be fought tooth and nail, whenever and wherever its ugly head rears itself. If not, the politically impressionable/ignorant electorate will quickly be sold on the idea that small government is an impossibility......something not even worth fighting for.