“My government’s schwartz was big to begin with!”

Dodd Harris gives a little bit more perspective regarding the Bush extravagance:

I understand how they feel. I’ve certainly taken issue with Bush’s participation in runaway spending – among other deviations from conservative principle – plenty of times. But the fact of the matter is that Bush never pretended to be the kind of conservative these critics expected him to be. In fact, it was always quite clear to anyone who paid attention that Bush was anything but. Everything about “compassionate conservatism” was a pretty obvious announcement that he had no problem with Big Government except its priorities. [Emphasis added. --- Ed.]

[...] I’m all for criticizing him from the right – if no-one does it, he’ll have every reason to assume his base is safely in his pocket. But calling him a fraud is too much. He told us what he would do and we voted him in, thereby endorsing those plans. If one paid attention to what he said, the best one would have hoped for was that he would turn the Leviathan a bit to the right. We may yet get that with Medicare – it’s a pretty lousy bill, but it does get the camel’s nose of choice into the tent. In the long run, that may end up being far more important than the money spent on drugs. One can hope anyway.

Many have the idea that the Bush Extravagance will be linchpin of hs defeat. Uh, no. Not unless you can get another Republican to win the nomination who is proposing reductions in spending and tax cuts for the Rich And Evil Corporations. (Pardon that.) It would be a cold day in hell when John Kerry, Howard Dean, Wesley Clark, or John Edwards, heck, why not even Al Sharpton talk about making the size of their proposed government’s schwartz smaller.

Most discussion on public policy in the blogosphere revolve around where our money should go. Now, I don’t know about you but I think I’d rather support the priorities of the Bush administration — ah yes, to keep money in the hands of those opportunistic evil companies and corporations that stole it from their helpless victim employees — than those of the Dems. Really, I do. I guess that means I’m part of the party that wants forty-five million Americans — ‘Murricans, I tellz ya — without health insurance to die in the streets.

Fringebait me! I double-dog dare you.