Bush to Congress: Stop Spending
President Bush called for Congress to stop spending so liberally (my term) recently, even though he’s the highest-spending Republican since Republicans started existing.
President George W. Bush blasted Democrats on Saturday for bloated annual federal spending bills and threatened to use his veto liberally, despite failing to carry out similar threats in the past.
While I agree with this article about the “despite failing to carry out similar threats in the past,” (a simple review of the 2007 budget will see this is true), it doesn’t belong in the first paragraph. Any journalist should know that.
Said Bush:
“I will use my veto to stop tax increases and runaway spending…”
As long as he’s claiming he’ll do the opposite of what he’s done (outside of stopping tax increases), maybe he can shoot down the current immigration bill as well. That’s the problem with being a conservative “on paper.” You can’t do it - or anything - on “paper.”
“By keeping taxes low and restraining federal spending, we can meet my plan to have a balanced budget by 2012,” he said. “The Democrats in Congress are trying to take us in a different direction.”
That’s not exactly true - Democrats have balanced the budget before. But a balanced budget isn’t necessarily the greatest thing in the world if it’s a balanced bureacracy of unlimited spending and taxing powers. That’s the real issue, not a ‘balanced budget.’ A budget that spends zero dollars and taxes zero is balanced, as well.
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