Poll: Less Government please

CNN poll finds most Americans still agree with the bedrock conservative premise that, as the Gipper put it, "government is not the answer to our problems -- government is the problem."

2001 - Discretionary spending was $649 billion
2005 - Spending is at $968 billion

Data: Congressional Budget Office (CBO)

72 percent said the size of the federal government has increased in the past four years

86 percent said federal spending has gone up during the same period

54 percent said govt is trying to do too many things

Quote from Rep. Mike Pence, R-Indiana, Chairman of the House Republican Study Committee, a 110-member caucus that supports limited government and lower taxes - "I believe that as a movement, we have veered off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government Republicanism."

Quote from Sen. John McCain, R-Arizona - "Conservatives came to office to reduce the size of government and enlarge the sphere of free and private initiative. But lately, we have increased government in order to stay in office."