Bushit wouldn't need all these "emergency" funding bills if he'd send a true budget

[NMDemDist2]

to the Hill instead of lying his preppie @ss off trying to massage the deficit numbers and hide how much this war is costing us.

what a lying sack of excrement he is

[robinlynne]

1. A true budget wouldn't have passed...

[NMDemDist2]

3. maybe, maybe not, but at least they could have debated it instead

of all this BS 'emergency' funding crap

[robinlynne]

5. what I meant is; If they had told the truth about what the war was going to cost,

they would have heard a "hell no!".

[htuttle]

2. True -- nearly all of the funding for the Iraq war has been 'off budget'

Right from the start, when they diverted money that was supposed to be spent in Afghanistan on Iraq instead.

[NMDemDist2]

4. Exactly! n/t