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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pompsander who wrote (747144)	8/7/2006 4:50:15 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof	Respond to of 769670

Re: What ever happened to the old conservative mantra: "Do we REALLY need it? If so, how much will it cost and how will we pay for it?" Swamped by a couple of decades of big budgets and big deficits, I'll wager.... (But, the Authoritarian impulse [impelling us toward big centralized government], and social/religious conservatism [also requiring a robust government role to implement & enforce social policies], are still around and kicking... still part of what 'conservatism' is popularly believed to be. Perhaps Authoritarianism/Nationalism and Puritanical social conservatism have ganged up to 'retire' small government fiscal conservatism?)