[ncountylee]

Well...it's a belated start at least.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

$14.5 billion

OH yeah baby, he's a conservative now!

[Southack]

Too little...too late.

< /sarcasm >

Just posting the obvious cracks that the Bush-haters always make...

[Senator Goldwater]

Thank God.

[TeddyCon]

Kanye West could not be reached for comment (pronunciation problem).

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Thank you for story and more thanks for linking to the printer friendly URL.

[billhilly]

Atta boy Mr. President.

[coloradan]

Let's not forget that BATFE is now part of Homeland Security, so it's budget might very well go up. I'd like to see its budget slashed to nearly nothing ... How much budget do they need to enforce only "real" crimes and not paper violations?

[NapkinUser]

"President Bush plans to propose a $2.7 trillion budget"

And the U.S. doesn't currently take in 2.7 trillion in taxes annually. More deficits and debts for our children to pay.

A 7% cut in all non-defense spending like Herman Cain campaigned here in Georgia on would be nice.

[TASMANIANRED]

Defund PBS,defund the environmental groups, defund the ACLU.

[Jim Robinson]

"Bush is to recommend to Congress will call for eliminating or reducing 141 programs"

141 programs down, 141,000 to go.

[LdSentinal]

It's Boehner's move in the future. Perhaps he will have a 1995 flashback when he proposed ending the Department of Education.

Other than that, Bush should propose cutting Pat Buchanan.

[kilowhskey]

Only a start. Let's help him target another couple hundred.

[digger48]

What will he end up by the time it gets through Congress?

15 Billion?

[NapkinUser]

Why do I get the feeling these aren't really cuts, but increasing spending below inflation?

[bitt]

RNC called me the other day, and I hollered that I wanted not one more cent to go to Palestine, Lebanon, Hamas, and the UN. I want them to spend 80% of all the saved billions in IRAQ, make it a wonderland, and give the other 20% to the military families just because we love 'em.

That got the fuindraiser off really quick.

[F16Fighter]

In contrast, the president plans to recommend for the Department of Homeland Security an increase of at least 5 percent from this year's funding, $30.8 billion. The White House is also trying again to increase passengers' security fees for air travel from $2.50 per flight to $5, a proposal that Congress swiftly rejected last year.

Similarly, the budget will suggest a hike of nearly 5 percent in the Pentagon's funding for next year, defense officials said.

Let's just call these "Muslim Taxes."

The b@stards are costing us a thousand different ways in security, economics, and inconvenience.

[billybudd]

'Bout damn time. Although, after all the increases we've seen, I wouldn't exactly call these "cuts".

[metmom]

I'd be in favor of cutting free hotel rides for Katrina *victims*. And for cutting welfare. And excessive pay hikes and retirement benefits for polititions. And the public school system. And.....

[Hank Rearden]

Wait, wasn't it something just over $2.4 last time around?

How about doing something really daring - like just freezing it exactly in place for a year? I bet the Earth wouldn't stop spinning if we tried it.

Then, when we find we all survived that, freeze it again. And again, and again, until the bastard strangles. Big Stupid Government needs its money supply cut off.