United Liberty

David Boaz takes on the hubris of George W. Bush:

The president who

• expanded federal spending by more than a trillion dollars a year, before his disastrous last hundred days
• federalized education
• laid out “a smorgasbord of handouts and subsidies for virtually every energy lobby in Washington.”
• protected the steel, agriculture, and textile industries from foreign competition
• backed farm bills with lavish subsidies for producers
• created the biggest new entitlement since Lyndon Johnson
• bailed out Bear Stearns, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, AIG, Bank of America, Citigroup, and dozens of other banks
• provided government support for mortgages, credit cards, auto loans and other consumer debt, and
• bailed out Chrysler and General Motors in direct defiance of Congress’s refusal to do so

now says that his successor is about to “replace the risk-and-reward model of the private sector” with “too much government involvement”? Shouldn’t President Bush be doing penance in a monastery somewhere, rather than embarrass the free-market cause by pretending that he wasn’t the biggest-government president in decades?