Bush's Bad Recipe for Savings

by Stephen Slivinski
Cato Institute

Conservative voters are looking for reassurances that Republicans are still the party of small government. They won't find much solace in the president's new budget. With each passing year, George W. Bush's budgets get less and less ambitious...

Republicans need bold plans to downsize the federal government, not some wishy-washy tinkering around the edges. Otherwise, it's not likely that fiscal conservatives can muster much enthusiasm for continued GOP control of Congress.