Fed Up!, by Rick Perry: on Budget & Economy

George W. Bush: OpEd: Intended big government binge to be temporary

For a statist like President Obama, a door cracked for the federal government to solve a national crisis is an open door for pursuing his agenda, behind which is creeping socialism. He sees this as a crisis that must not go to waste.

Rick Perry: OpEd: Pursued freedom agenda more than fiscal agenda

But he did not fight for fiscal conservatism with the same fervor with which he pursues the freedom agenda in his foreign policy. He was dubbed by the Republican-friendly columnist Fred Barnes in the "Weekly Standard", "a big government conservative." I am not sure that's fair to the President or to the term conservative. There is no such thing as a "big government conservative." It is an oxymoron. I do think George is basically a conservative man who believes in God, in the greatness of America, in the protection of life, and in protecting our nation from our enemies. That's a pretty good record if you ask me. But he also seemed unwilling to fight spendthrift congressional Republicans for the sake of his larger goals.