Feb 062008
Steven Pearlstein at the Washington Post writes:
I know what you’re thinking: “Please, not another federal budget story.” Who could blame you? It has become such a con game. The president sends Congress a budget that is immediately declared dead-on-arrival because of its rosy political and economic assumptions.
Um, no, that’s not why Congress declares these budgets dead-on-arrival. Congresspersons may give that as a reason, but the same people are all full of rosy and political and economic assumptions for their own unrealistic ideas. The president’s budget deserves to die for a number of reasons, but that’s no reason to believe what Bush’s opponents say.