-Iraq, Vietnam
-Roughly tied for largest increase of federal spending as a percent of GDP behind FDR (in addition to their expensive wars)
-Came to power under 'unusual' circumstances
-LBJ Creates original Federal Student Loans program, Bush is first to reform it, and 'reforms' it twice in five years
-LBJ Creates Medicare / Medicaid ; Bush expands programs with largest new entitlement, the hundred billion a year prescription drug benefit
-LBJ breaks tradition to federally fund education ; Bush expands federal funding for education faster than anyone since LBJ through "No Child Left Behind"
-LBJ opens immigration via Ted Kennedy sponsored legislation ; Bush attempts to open immigration via, you guessed it, Ted Kennedy legislation
Sources:
http://www.undergroundpolitics.com/forum/index.php?topic=21.0
Democrats, would Bush belong in your party if he renamed his domestic agenda: "Great Society?"
Republicans, would you support LBJ if he was tough on terror?
2 unique parties?
2007-08-07
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