[lugsoul]

I don't know if it has been spent, distributed, funded, burned, or flushed. What I do know is that one does not equal the other, and that it is disingenuous to cite to an article that says one thing in support of a completely different proposition.

As far as "what can the President do," I feel pretty confident that, if he thought the process was dragging along more slowly than he liked, he could do something about it. Not just this President. Any President.

[Last Visible Dog]

"I don't know if it has been spent, distributed, funded, burned, or flushed. What I do know is that one does not equal the other, and that it is disingenuous to cite to an article that says one thing in support of a completely different proposition. "

The only thing we really know is the linked article does not support Perlstein claim and that is the only point I was making (any other points were secondary and unnecessary)