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I was wondering when someone would bring this up.We know that there is no difference on big government between the parties--in fact, that Republicans are now more prone to spend money than Democrats. No president has made this point more clearly than Bush. It's not the tax cuts as such. It's the combination of tax cuts, huge spending increases and a refusal to concede openly, quickly, or convincingly that this amounts to a fiscal problem. The second Bush administration has done exactly what the first Bush administration did: create an opening for Perotism. Part of Howard Dean's appeal, I'd argue, is related to his Perot-like, populist, anti-deficit candidacy.
