<feed version="0.3" xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><generator>Plime/1</generator><title>Limited Government: Are the Good Times Really Over? : ATOM 0.3</title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/"/><tagline>Limited Government: Are the Good Times Really Over? : ATOM 0.3</tagline><author><name>www.plime.com</name><email>plime@plime.com</email></author><copyright>2008, www.plime.com.</copyright><modified>2008-11-19T05:36:33+01:00</modified><entry><title><![CDATA[Limited Government: Are the Good Times Really Over?]]></title><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.plime.com/politics/l/55723/1/" /><id>55723</id><summary><![CDATA[Limited Government: Are the Good Times Really Over?]]></summary><issued>2008-03-25T23:24:31+01:00</issued><modified>2008-03-25T23:24:31+01:00</modified><content type="text/html" mode="escaped"><![CDATA[Utterly missing in this election season is a serious focus on limited or constitutional government. The Democrats, generally speaking, want more government, not less, so their neglect of the issue is to be expected. But the Republican dereliction is more troubling. It represents a falling away from the standards of Ronald Reagan&#8217;s conservatism&#8212;a decline already reflected in the &#8220;compassionate conservatism&#8221; of George W. 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The Democrats, generally speaking, want more government, not less, so their neglect of the issue is to be expected. But the Republican dereliction is more troubling. It represents a falling away from the standards of Ronald Reagan’s conservatism—a decline already reflected in the “compassionate conservatism” of George W. 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