Last Gasp for Limited Government?

Last Gasp for Limited Government?
Obama charts a socialized course.
By Rich Lowry
from The National Review

Is American exceptionalism about to be bundled off on a long trip to the Continent, never to return? Socialism may happen here.

Republicans fought an inspired battle against the stimulus bill, holding all but three of their 219 senators and congressmen. And they still lost.

Barring a last-minute House-Senate blowup, Pres. Barack Obama will sign a bill spending at least $475 billion in the first major substantive victory of his presidency. Some of that spending will enter the permanent “baseline” of the federal budget, the starting point for all future budgets that, in the immutable law of Washington, always grow and never shrink.
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