I gagged when I read Bill Kristol warning of Obama’s "nanny-state" impulses. This from a Bush-supporter! I’m sorry but Kristol has no standing to defend a conservatism he largely ignored or trashed while he was close to the levers of power under Bush and Rove. Bruce Bartlett gets it right:
I think the standard answer to every objection to Obama by Republicans should be this: He can’t be worse than Bush.
From a conservative perspective, on spending, debt, big government, regulation, which Democrat could be worse?
The Dish 