[Smasharoo]

It's not going to happen. You're going to see taxes raised under the guise of "tax code reform" to attempt to compensate for the massivy disparity between spending and revenue. Spending, of course, will increase as allways.

You'll see a PR attempt at reforming Soc Sec which will amount to nothing.

Bush clearly isn't a fiscal reformer. His creation out of whole cloth of a brand new entitlement coupled with his massive increases in spending should have made this clear to everyone.

I dearly hope there weren't many Bush voters who were under the impression that he was going to fall on the ground and a fiscal conservative was going to pop out of his stomach ala "Alien" and suddenly change fiscal policy in the Federal Government.

He has the political muscle to tackle Soc Sec and Medicare reform, but there's nothing to suggest he has the inclination.