Matt Yglesias, like a lot of liberals, believe that Bush is secretly ultra-conservative inside. Unless he is referring simply to foreign policy, and assumes that invading foreign countries is "conservative," or unless he assumes that at some point Bush really is going to cut social spending dramatically, he's very, very wrong.
Bush's goal of changing social security may seem to be designed to destroy it as a welfare program, but based on Bush's support for a prescriptiondrug benefit, for federal meddling and funding of education, and his unwillingness to veto a single spending bill, I seriously doubt that that is his goal. Moreover, if the systme starts to blow up, I doubt that benefit reduction will be the first method chosen to try to deal with it. Rather, either the government will be forced to raise taxes or else it will simply pay its obligations by inflating the currency (printing money).
Those who see Bush as far right, or as truly conservative at all, are deluded.
That is all.
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