Nixon

Big-Government "Conservatism" is fiscally worse than any Liberalism we've had... Yesterday at the world's finest magazine, Nick Gillespie reprinted the findings by American Enterprise Institute analyst Veronique de Rugy concerning discretionary spending increases over the first five years of all two-term Presidents since LBJ. All are official OMB figures, all are adjusted for inflation:

LBJ: 25.2%
Nixon: -16.5%
Reagan: 11.9%
Clinton: -8.2%
Bush: 35.2%

"Nixon: Now more than ever."