dead on arrival

The record $3.1 trillion budget proposed by President Bush on Monday would produce eyepopping federal deficits, despite his attempts to impose politically wrenching curbs on Medicare and eliminate scores of popular domestic programs.

The Pentagon would receive a $36 billion, 8 percent boost for the 2009 budget year beginning Oct. 1, even as programs aimed at the poor would be cut back or eliminated. Half of domestic Cabinet departments would see their budgets cut outright.

George ... he's a funny guy. He's proposing a $410 billion deficit for 08 and $407 billion for 09 [hey what the heck, it's still less than his $413 billion in 04] and that doesn't even include $120 billion for Iraq that he's sandbagging on. A $530 billion dollar deficit is big even by conservatives'(sic) standards.

Of course, we could shave $190 billion of that off right away by leaving Iraq.

'... happy to have that argument'