When it comes to federal spending, George W. Bush is the boy who can't say no

Tony Snow received his masters in Philosophy and Economics at University of Chicago. Why is this important? Because The U of C philisophy department is pretty much the birth place of neo-conservatism. Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz both went there. Strauss taught there. The major crux of Straussian political philosophy, in a very small nutshell, is that democracy created fascism in Germany (Hitler was voted into office) and that, therefore, the people can't be trusted to make the correct political desicions. The difficult, and sometimes immoral, decisions need to be made out of veiw from the public by wise men, who are fronted by a figure-head who essentially lies to them, and tells them what they want to hear. Keep that in mind, when Bush is talking about God or baseball and Tony Snow is giving us inarguable reasons for the necessity of Iran invasion.