Funny. I could have sworn I thought I heard the President state Congress should cut its expenditures to pay for the costs. You would think the WSJ would know that rather than create pretense of opposition where it doesn't exist.
Look, here is the reality. The President will not stand in the way of cuts. He won't stand in the way of pork. If Congress sent him reduced budgets, he'd sign them just as he's signed their spending sprees. He wouldn't VETO either way. The obstacle for fiscal responsibility is/has been Congress. The question I have is whether they'll finally get serious about this, and I'll be interestedly following the submission of areas to cut spending given today.
And this congress has failed miserably when it comes fiscal responsibility. The president needs to step up and tell the American people that indeed the grown-ups are in charge and challenge the congress to send him a pork free budget. Do it on live TV and threaten to veto any budget that contains pork when the country is at war, recovering from Katrina and preparing for the aftermath of Rita. He'd hit it out of the park and his poll numbers would soar to post 911 levels.