Tim Carney: What’s good for General Electric

George W. Bush promised in his State of the Union address Tuesday to keep the American economy growing “not with more government, but with more enterprise.” In fact, what he proposed in the House chamber on domestic policy constituted a partnership between “more government” and “enterprises” though not free enterprise.

Specifically, some parts of President Bush’s speech, pushing incentives and subsidies for energy and environmental technologies, ran a near perfect parallel to the recent corporate initiatives of General Electric — the company that spends more than any other on federal lobbying.