Budget Deficits Threaten Political Will to Tackle Other Bush Initiatives

[truthpusher]

this is a must read article, includes a couple of excellent talking points

http://www.kfi640.com/script/headline_newsmanager.php?id=384601&pagecontent=nationalnews&feed_id=59

Budget Deficits Threaten Political Will to Tackle Other Bush Initiatives

Knight Ridder Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney once brushed aside fears that new tax cuts would increase the federal budget deficit and hurt the economy. "Reagan proved deficits don't matter," Cheney reportedly said.

Now, with his new federal budget proposals, President Bush is about to test whether that's true. He projects that the deficit would shrink from $427 billion in fiscal 2005 to $207 billion in fiscal 2010 under his proposals.

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"It's Maalox time for Congress," said Steve Schier, a political scientist at Carleton College in Minnesota and author of a book on deficit politics. "Congress has talked the talk about spending but hasn't walked the walk. I don't know how the president's going to get them to do it this time. I'm sure there are lot of knees knocking right now in the Republican caucuses."

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Bush has hardly been a taskmaster on spending. He didn't veto a single spending bill in his first term. Spending rose 29 percent during those four years. Much was attributed to the costs of war, but not all. For example, Bush signed into law the biggest expansion of Medicare since it was created in 1965, at the height of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society.

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"It's like saying you're going to go on a diet until dinner," said William Gale, a Brookings economist.

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http://www.kfi640.com/script/headline_newsmanager.php?id=384601&pagecontent=nationalnews&feed_id=59

[LynnTheDem]

1. bush is such a retarded moran.

And the idiots who voted for him are soon going to realize why you should know your candidate FIRST, BEFORE voting for him. Not THINKING you know him (rightwingnuts got 2 out of 8 correct on where bush stands on issues).

Ignorance is no excuse; you voted for the bastard, you deserve the hurt coming your way.

[AzDar]

2. So true!!...I also have moments, though, where I'm sure he'll kill us all.

n/t

[atreides1]

3. Wait

His second term isn't over yet, he still has time!!!!

[atreides1]

4. A Problem

The idiots who voted for him will never admit that it was a mistake,
remember these are the same kool-aid drinking sheep who think the that the troops are actually coming home, and never consider the reason why the US is building permanent bases in Iraq.

They knew what he was, they just didn't care, and now we all get to be punished for their lemming like qualities.