Big Government Conservatives

Pork Pork Pork:

The passage on Tuesday of the $400 billion Medicare bill, within a day or so of the delivery of the $400 billion defense bill, and around the same time as the near-passage of the gargantuan, pork-laden energy bill, brought into sharp relief a surprising but undeniable feature of the Bush administration and the GOP-controlled Congress: they spend money like the Republican stereotype of Big-Government Democrats, with total disregard for fiscal responsibility.

Well ain't that the truth. Leave it to Mother Jones to give you an unbiased rundown of just how much government has grown under the reign of King W. The article only goes into the economic aspects of big government, GOP style. It doesn't talk about GOP-backed measures that have increased the size and scope of government the closest they ever have been to Orwellian standards with things like the PATRIOT Act and PATRIOT II that they want to get passed, not to mention attempting to add freedom-limiting Flag and Gay Marriage amendments to the Constitution, and their constant march to shove religion down our throats.