Billions for guns, vetoes for butter
By E. J. Dionne | Friday, November 16, 2007 | The Washington Post
“…So it comes down to this: Bush can bust the budget for Iraq, but God forbid that we spend a little more on education.
In the way that he’s managing the Iraq and budget debates, the president is trying to evade the essential questions. By focusing on the surge, Bush avoids responsibility for explaining where we might be in Iraq at the end of his term. And by picking symbolic budget fights, he never has to explain how his own policies — his ludicrous initial assumptions about the costs of the war, his refusal to ask for the taxes to fund it — have created the fiscal mess he now decries.
You’d think that facing the verdict of history, not simply an election, the president would be more serious about these things….”…BS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/15/AR2007111502029_pf.html
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