So he proposes not just trimming but eliminating state programmes wholesale.
The fiscal conservative who once tackled Mr Bush over his unaffordable tax cuts now proposes not just to keep the cuts, but to deepen them.
It has proposed not just the AIIB, but a New Development Bank launched with its "BRICS" partners Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa and a Silk Road development fund to boost "connectivity" with its Central Asian neighbours.
Today's overpopulation hysteria is not a patch on what it was a hundred years ago, however, when mainstream intellectuals such as HG Wells, WB Yeats, Virginia Woolf and DH Lawrence were proposing not just sterilisation but actual extermination.
There was little grasp, on either side, of the strategic magnitude of what was being proposed – not just the uprooting and replanting of the economy, but fracturing the political alliance that has underpinned British foreign policy for a generation.
I was reading the study, which is found in the Journal of Consumer Research, as Joe Ferguson, Chicago's inspector general, proposed not just thoughtful budget cuts, in the bloated Fire Department, for instance, but also a commuter tax on suburbanites and toll booths on Lake Shore Drive.
The neurochemical rationale was proposed not just for analgesia, but insomnia, nausea/vomiting, obesity, Parkinson's and effects on blood pressure, immune function, colitis, vasomotor symptoms and lower esophageal sphincter relaxation.
Citizens are willing to step up and get involved, but they need to be met halfway and reassured that the ideas they suggest and propose are not just falling on deaf ears that have already made up their minds.
Pending confirmatory research, we propose that not just one but a combination of various methods targeting different attributes of team-sport athletes over the course of the yearly plan would be more beneficial.
"What he is proposing is not just a ludicrous, seven-sided, bite-sized squabble fest but actually he is proposing it takes place before the Conservative manifesto is published," he told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.
