“There needs to be fiscal sanity in Washington, D.C., and at the same time, have policies which grow the economy so we can get more revenues coming into the Treasury. If you’re interested in the deficit, you ought to be supporting fiscal discipline on the one hand and aggressive policies to make sure people can find work on the other hand,” Bush said. Less than two years later in 2005, Mitch Daniels, Bush’s former budget director, became Indiana Governor and brought his inauguration party to the “old barn.” Another capacity crowd turned out. “Enroute to Philadelphia in 1776, to put his life, his fortune and his sacred honor all at risk, John Adams wrote in his diary that it was all well worth it,” Daniels said. “’Great things are wanted to be done.’ And so it is with us… in our day, Adams’ excitement and Churchill’s iron resolve should be our own. Great things are there to be done. This is our moment.”
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