[hattend]

No semantics involved. He spoke plain English. He said a spending cut. Did you find one? Neither did I.

I understand the political concept of cutting the rate of growth and calling it a spending cut. I listen to Rush and he also calls it a lie when he does his analysis of budgets.

I don't know why this seems to work you up so. LOL.

How about the bureaucrat-ese term: DeLay "misspoke"

Happy?

[Positive]

"He said a spending cut."

Actually, he prefaced that assertion with "...as a percentage of GNP..."