I would have trouble characterizing Teddy Roosevelt as a fiscal conservative, especially for his time. Conservatism is, after all, about maintaining the status quo, and the status quo in his era was monopolies and trusts. Bush is, in some ways, a fiscal REACTIONARY, in that he is undertaking active measures to UNDO the changes in our economy that have taken place in the past 100 years, to whit, un-redistributing the wealth so it returns to he hands of a tiny elite.