[Man of the Right]

The country's at war. You have deficits in war time. Would the world have been a better place if Hitler had won WW II while Roosevelt balanced the budget?

Also, you can't tax yourself into a balanced budget during a recession (we're on the verge of a second recession). Hoover and Roosevelt tried in the early '30s and turned a garden-variety recession into the Great Depression.

[bandleader]

Very Well Said,Indeed!Once again,The LiboCrites are displaying their utter disdain for The Facts!!

[Taiwan Bocks]

Be careful how you comment to such posts.

Under the Patriot Act and the Homeland Security Bill
you might very well be liable for sedition,
prosecuted in the future for comments you make now
that are in the future deemed seditious or deemed to make you a terrorist.

[lepton]

Clinton INTENDED to have a deficit over $300 Billion for years running when he left office. Look at his projected budgets before the stock market caught everyone by surprise and flooded the Treasury.

[sixmil]

OK, Democrats are hypocrites. The question is, are we going to join them by talking smaller government while exploding the budget?

[onedoug]

It would be gratifying for W to start identifying some spending to cut.

[eureka!]

Truth bump...

[jeremiah]

More of "the Democrats are worse than us", from a bankrupt party. Until the Republicans, who control all branches of govt, for the first time since Christ wore diapers, cut spending drastically, they will forever be known as liars, and big spenders. The only difference between the parties, is name, and rhetoric. They campaign in different styles, and govern identically. If GW was a Democrat in name, they would follow his lead to war, to cut taxes, to spend more or less, the same as the Republicans do. That is the nature of politics in '03. Whatever gets you re-elected.

[Brimack34]

Watch the spending difference between what comes out of the House and what comes out of the Senate.