Bush and Spending – So Now President Bush Wants to Talk Fiscal Responsibility?

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_061216_bush_and_spending__96_.htm

December 16, 2006 at 17:17:45

Bush and Spending – So Now President Bush Wants to Talk Fiscal Responsibility?

by Steven Leser

Bush gets my vote for greatest amount of Chutzpah in 2006. Chutzpah, for the non-Jews out there, is most closely translated as unmitigated gall. The old tongue in cheek explanation is that a teen who kills his parents and then pleads with the judge for mercy because he is an orphan is displaying Chutzpah. This leads in perfectly to the topic at hand.

This President has presided over the most irresponsible fiscal record in history. His administration, along with his cronies in the Republican congress, turned several years of surplus federal government budgets delivered by the previous administration into massive deficits. This is the same President who thought it was a good idea to implement tax cuts at the same time he increased spending.

After six years of spending a lot more than the government was taking in, now Bush wants to tell the incoming Democratic congress that they have to be fiscally responsible (See this CNN report on Bush's remarks today, http://edition.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/12/16/bush.address.ap/index.html ).

I often think that people like Coulter and Bush are going to one day call a press conference and tell people that everything they have been doing and saying was a big act, a joke, a science experiment, a hoax to see if they could get away with it without anyone calling them on it or impeaching them. I thought it could be sort of a psychology experiment writ large.

I mean, really, how could this be taken seriously? This is the same President who only a year ago signed into law the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), which included $223 million for the Gravina Island Bridge in Alaska, also known as "The Bridge to Nowhere". Nor is the Bridge to Nowhere the only significant item of wastefulness in the bill.

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Much more at link to article on OpedNews

[Xipe Totec]

1. It's a typo

He promissed fecal responsibility; he promissed to stop flinging feces.

[stevenleser]

2. Kicked for Sunday morning crowd...

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