The Republican promises of smaller, less intrusive government is getting harder to believe. Especially when a more plausible plot line is unfolding every day: that the GOP has put aside the ideals of Reagan and Goldwater in order to pursue a political strategy based on big spending.For the latest, check out a report just released by the libertarian Cato Institute that tells a striking story about just how out-of-control spending has gotten under President Bush.-Bush has presided over the largest increase in federal spending since Lyndon Johnson.-Even excluding defense and homeland security spending, Bush is the biggest-spending President in 30...