[Hank Rearden]

This bill will pass because they will elect someone who will pass it for them, Bush vetoes the bill, the Democrat who takes office in 2005 will pass one twice as big.

You talk like a Republican, as opposed to someone who has principles. Principles aligned with the intent of our country's Founders, for example.

There's not such thing as a too-big Big Stupid Republican Government, is there? Just let it keep growing like stink. No problem.

Until the whole mess crashes.

[Luis Gonzalez]

The complete lack of substance on your "response" (which was little more than a badly written ad hominem) exposes the fact that you had no rebuttal to my post.

Your logic would have me stand on some sort of misguided "principles" and demand that George W. Bush veto a $400 billion entitlement in the name of "principles", in spite of the fact that you openly acknowledge that the net-net result of that would be to get the geezer vote to shift to a Democrat (you acknlwledged this by your inability to post a cohesive rebuttal), who would in turn reward them by passing a much larger, more encompassing bill, at a higher cost to me.

Bill Clinton's road to the White House was paved with your kind of "principles", you're more dangerous (and more costly) than Democrats.