[Vision2020] How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy

[Ted Moffett]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/22/earlyshow/leisure/books/printable1337222.shtml

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http://www.randomhouse.com/doubleday/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385518277&view=excerpt

I write as a Reaganite, by which I mean someone who believes in the
historical conservative philosophy of small government, federalism, free
trade, and the Constitution as originally understood by the Founding
Fathers. On that basis, Bush clearly is not a Reaganite or "small c"
conservative. Philosophically, he has more in common with liberals, who see
no limits to state power as long as it is used to advance what they think is
right. In the same way, Bush has used government to pursue a "conservative"
agenda as he sees it. But that is something that runs totally contrary to
the restraints and limits to power inherent in the very nature of
traditional conservatism. It is inconceivable to traditional conservatives
that there could ever be such a thing as "big government conservatism," a
term often used to describe Bush's philosophy.(1)

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