Ugh.

[novapsyche]

Bush "is wagering a lot," says Michael Tanner of the libertarian Cato Institute. "But success would make him the Republican equivalent of FDR: He's done war and remade the nation's domestic agenda."

Except that FDR didn't fully commit to war until we were attacked, and his remodeling of domestic policy was in reaction to an actual crisis, not because it suited his fancy.