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Bush adviser Grover Norquist has summed up this strategy: "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub."

This has been the dream of the conservative movement since the Coors Brothers founded of the Heritage Foundation. Things like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, etc are only crumbs to make the peasants happy. Bush's budget has cut just about every social program or offset it to the cash crunched states while it increased the defense budget and cut taxes for the rich. I don't think this is a dumb conclusion to draw at all.