Posted on 11/13/2007 9:49:53 AM PST by IrishMike
President Bush, delivering another budget veto to a Democratic-led Congress whose spending he calls out-of-control, accuses leaders of "acting like a teenager with a new credit card.''
This is one of the promised lines that Bush will deliver at a speech at the Grand Theater in New Albany, Indiana, today, part of a continuing attack on congressional spending. And with it, Bush has vetoed another spending bill, a $150-billion health, education and labor bill which the White House faults for $10 billion in excessive spending and too much "pork.''
The congressional majority "was elected on a pledge of fiscal responsibility, but so far it is acting like a teenager with a new credit card,'' Bush plans to say, according to excerpts of the speech released by the Office of Management and Budget. "This year alone, leaders in Congress are proposing to spend $22 billion more than my budget provides.
"Some of them claim this is not really much of a difference – and the scary part is that they seem to mean it,'' Bush is prepared t say. "Over five years, their proposed spending spree adds up to an extra $205 billion. Put another way, that is about $1,300 in higher spending every second, of every minute, of every hour, of every day, of every year – for the next five years.''
There's more: "Congress is not picky about how to raise taxes. To them, every bill on the floor is an opportunity for a tax hike. Congress has proposed tax increases in the farm bill … the energy bill … the small business bill … and the children’s health bill. If you find a bill that doesn’t have a tax increase in it, just wait a while – chances are they’ll add one in.
(Excerpt) Read more at weblogs.baltimoresun.com ...
Not to bash Bush, but he hasn’t exactly been a spendthrift himself during his terms.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
And...most important...he couples his spending with tax cuts. The deficit has gone down quite dramatically under Pres. Bush due to those cuts.
where was this attitude his first 6 years?
Congress adds a couple of billion in pork projects though.
Bush was trying to fight a war with a Congress full of supposed-allies.
Didn’t he slip some $50 billion to Mexico along with some military spending a couple of weeks back?
And that was just the Republicans.
Pot. Kettle. Black.
Too right. After pushing through the prescription drug boondoggle, bungling the illegal immigration that is sapping our very lifeblood, and letting Ted Kennedy write a bloated education bill, he wants to complain about spending? Look to the beam in thine own, Bush.
W discovered what passes for fiscal responsibility in Washington when his party lost control of Congress.
Not to bash Bush, but he hasn’t exactly been a spendthrift himself during his terms.
Didn’t Tom Delay say there’s nothing left to cut?
There goes Bush's perfect non-veto record. I don't seem to remember him vetoing anything coming from the Republican-controlled Congress.
You remember that one. That's the one that DeLay said had no more waste to cut from the budget.
Best analogy yet!!
The one with the $350 "bridge to nowhere"? Or the one with the greatest expansion of the welfare state since LBJ?
I'll give ya I'd rather have Bush at the helm than Gore or Kerry, but geesh! Ronaldus Magnus must have turned over in his grave.
Bush has increased spending more than any other modern President and he’s lecturing the Dems. Please!!!!!!!!!!!
Giving power and money to Congress is like
giving liquor and car keys to teenage boys.
- P.J. O’Rourke
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