It only looks different: Both parties love big government
Strip away the political finger pointing over President Obama's proposed budget and the fight boils down to a clash of values. Both major parties are really for big government — just big in different places.
Republicans say they're outraged that Obama would "borrow and spend" his way to a new behemoth government. But they borrowed and spent their way through the '80s and the current decade. And they love big government — when it's at the Pentagon.
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Democrats believe in government as a functioning partner with private enterprise. Republicans want to "drown government in a bathtub" unless it is running armies and prisons. And they want a big government for that.