Bush Wants Transition Cash to Train Aides (!!!!!)

[grytpype]

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/8083993.htm?template=contentModules/printstory.jsp

WASHINGTON - President Bush is making an unprecedented request to use up to $1 million budgeted for a possible presidential transition to train top officials who would join his administration if he should win a second term.

The proposal, which will require Congress' approval, is the first time a president has sought to use public transition funds to prepare officials to enter a re-elected administration, White House officials and others say. Critics say the money should come from existing agency budgets, especially as Bush is proposing to curb spending for many programs because of soaring federal deficits.

The White House is defending the request as a way to cope with the spate of departures that usually marks an incumbent's second term. Officials say the money would be used for briefing materials and other training expenses for which agencies have not budgeted.

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He's already asking for money for his second term!

[Qanisqineq]

1. kind of presumptuous of him, eh?

[david_vincent]

2. As my old friend Dan used to say,

Get a wheelbarrow for your balls.

[madrchsod]

3. i guess the fix is in already

big voter fraud going to happen and will the democrats roll over and play dead?

[DakotaDemocrat]

4. Ah, the steward of our money.

Preaches that using the people's mooney should be sacred, but his slush fund isn't enough to fix this? Even with small funds, he's saying the people should pay, not the special interests funding his campaign.

I don't know what's funnier, him asking for this or people giving it to him?

[bif]

5. "I want, I want." It's all about you, isn't it George?

God he's so selfish.

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Their hubris is bottomless...

This reminds me of the behavior of the Bush team during the recount in 2000. Despite the ongoing legal battle, they conducted themselves as if it (their "selection") was a forgone conclusion. Don't forget, they started calling the pig farm "the Western White House" long before the actual selection on 12/12/00.