The numbers don't lie. Bush has reduced the GROWTH of discretionary spending every year in office. Those growth rates are now down to 2% and less than inflation.
This has been a shrewd and effective strategy for implementing fiscal conservativsm. The economy is outgrowing Congressional recklessness. Tax cuts continue to deprive the beast that is Congress.
President Bush has done more than any other President to control an out of control Congress. The 39 veto threats did work.
Reactionaries like yourself want Bush and other fiscal Republicans to commit political suicide in accord with your utopian visions which will never be realized.
There are ZERO empirical examples of your notions of successful policy.
Bush has a successful fiscal, military, and border record. You and your borderbots have NOTHING to show in the way of results-- except perhaps tanking Miers.
Put up winning candidates or pipe down. The House reflects your values. Congratulations. The Senate needs much more work and blaming Bush will do nothing to change that.
Bush's speech is pressure against the Senate and toward the House-- you ought to be grateful.