Getting Fingered

Anyone heard anything about Bush's new 2007 budget?? The one that cuts veterans benefits while increasing out-of-pocket expenses for active military personnel? The one that cuts education and Perkins grant funding so that 11,000 will lose aid while college tuition rises? The one that freezes child care subsidies for the 5th year in a row so that 400,000 fewer children will receive aid this year compared to last? The one that makes permanent the tax breaks for the very richest? It's a doozy.

The above chart is very simple to understand. For those who watch FOX "news", the bars between $290 at the bottom and $236 at the top represent the Clinton "entitlement" years.

In another sharp contrast, Bush is about to break the National Debt Clock. Do you realize how much 1 trillion dollars is? If you spent a million dollars a day for a million days, you would spend 1 trillion. That's $1,000,000,000,000. Thanks to congress, our debt ceiling is now around $9,000,000,000,000, and if it goes to $10,000,000,000,000, the clock will not be able to handle it. The clock's owners wonder if they can just do away with the dollar sign and use that spot, because no one ever anticipated that this country would ever let itself fall into such severe debt. While Clinton actually stopped it (only because it couldn't count backwards and subtract money), Bush is actually going to bust it.

And now we have testimony from Scooter Libby that confirms what all smart Democrats knew: Bush and Cheney told Libby to leak classified information to Bob Woodward for his book that would make the run up to war look as scary as possible, and to leak information to Miller and Cooper that would discredit Joe Wilson's whistleblower report. The President and Vice President actively smeared and placed in danger subordinates who tried to prevent this war, and I'm sure right-wing bloggers everywhere are trying to justify it.

Just as Tom Delay said on Hardball Tuesday night, "Democrats are all about spending, Republicans are about the law", it's alarming how easily they lie and mislead and conspire to deceive with Christian chins held high. Their God must be so totally tolerant and benevolent and like, you know, liberal.