The World Needs More Ninjas

Here’s about as close as you can get to a direct comparison.

Al Gore:

During the 2000 presidential campaign, the conservative media jumped all over Al Gore for proposing a drug benefit with an estimated price tag of $253 billion over 10 years. “Mr. Gore seems unconcerned about costs,” opined The Wall Street Journal.

George W. Bush:

The White House defended its actions, disputing news reports that the drug benefit’s 10-year cost would be $1.2 trillion and stressing that the actual net cost to the government after factoring in savings would be about $724 billion.

Guess President Bush is about 2.86 times as liberal in spending as the Democrat he beat. Pretty sad that he still thinks he bears any resemblance whatsoever to a “conservative”.