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>>My point is Bush now has a second term, a stronger majority in both houses, so they dang well better make hay with it and cut spending drastically. I don't think they have the guts to do that, so that makes them fiscally no different than the Dems.
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>Based on the last four years why would one expect anything other than more spending? Doesn't the reelection just ask for more of the same?

It depends on how the Administration interprets the underlying factors of the actual vote. They may have been apprehensive before and governed more liberally than they otherwise would have. With bigger majorities in both Houses, they may be more emboldened. I am hopeful, just not overly so.