[Agamemnon]

Cato's fiscal analyst Veronique de Rugy...and Cato researcher Tad DeHaven....

And clearly these dimbulbs fail to realize that in our Constitutional form of government no President can spend ANY money whatsoever. A President can impound funds temporarilly, but no President can possibly do that as standard policy and practice, and govern anything else effectively. Andrew Jackson's methods come to mind. These fellows do their position a major disservice to write so carelessly.

Even Stephan Moore of Cato knows better than to spout this kind of idiocy.

[inquest]

The new spending has been at the President's behest. He submits a budget, and Congress votes on it. And the budgets he's been submitting have contained these massive increases, and he's quite proud of it. He most certainly shares much of the blame.

[Ol' Sparky]

Yes, but a President can initiate spending and strong-arm members of his own majority into passing those programs.

The Medicare expansion would never have taken place if a Democratic President had proposed it to a Republican congress. Thus, the case for gridlock.