You underestimate the Bushes, in that case. I'm not someone who likes to say George Bush was an evil mastermind (I think he really did think that invading Iraq and spying on Americans was for "the greater good"), but he definitely had an active role in the neoconservatism and big government tendencies of his administration.
Cheney was the real president from 2000-2008, change my mind.
You underestimate the Bushes, in that case. I'm not someone who likes to say George Bush was an evil mastermind (I think he really did think that invading Iraq and spying on Americans was for "the greater good"), but he definitely had an active role in the neoconservatism and big government tendencies of his administration.