Bush says he still plans to cut deficit

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4098618/

President Bush said Friday that he still planned to cut the federal budget deficit in half over the next five years despite White House estimates that new prescription drug benefits would cost about a third more than expected.

Bush faces the prospect of an election-year rebellion by Republican conservatives over the high cost of implementing new Medicare reforms and may also be challenged by moderates in his own party over proposed cuts in domestic spending.

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Many conservatives were enraged Thursday to learn that Bush’s budget would sharply increase the price tag for the Medicare plan, which they opposed.

Stephen Moore, president of the Club for Growth, a politically powerful conservative group, called the new cost estimate a “financial scandal.”

“The real question is what did the president know and when did he know it,” Moore said.

[bif]

1. "The real question is what did the president know and when did he know it.

Is something that could apply to all the disasters he's gotten us into.

[bleedingheart]

2. Bullpoo!

he is lying lying lying like he always does...

[The_Casual_Observer]

3. Why did anyone think that if they made him the President

he would all of a sudden become smart and not be a failure anymore?

How often does anyone else who is stupid and a failure get a chance like that?

[x-g.o.p.er]

4. This is why...

ex repub's like me must join up with you guys and for the good of the republic....

ABB in '04!!!

[Mari333]

13. amen to that !

ABB..!

[Salviati]

14. Hell, current republicans shoud be voting against this miserable failure..

The damage that Bushco would do with another four years without having to worry about re-election should strike fear into the heart of any republican who cares about the future of their party...

[cthrumatrix]

5. yes...but he went on to say with a pair of "scissors" ....(fingers crossed

[Cooley Hurd]

6. Frighteningly enough, I believe him...

Say goodbye to a lot of social programs.

snip, snip, snip...

[Columbia]

7. Yeah right

He's going to spend, spend, spend like he's being doing the rest of the term.

[mbperrin]

8. He'll do it right after the next photo-op and fund-raiser!

(Well, maybe the next one after that....)

[ignatius]

9. The man is delusional and ignorant. Why can't he just shut up

for a while?

[Emboldened Chimp]

10. How, through massive tax cuts...

and spending like a drunken sailor? :eyes:

[leftchick]

11. more lies..... It is impossible to ask for 1.4 billion for MD

Which he plans to do Monday,and be able to balance an already out of control budget. Just more lies to please the base....

[stevedeshazer]

12. Impossible.

Add up the entitlements, military expenditures, and interest on the national debt. Subtract the money from the huge tax cuts for the wealthiest.

Bush must still have a stash of magic dust somewhere.

[auntpattywatty]

15. I finally found out how Bush is like Hitler - they were both nuts!

[dfong63]

16. maybe he'll ask for a bond measure, like Arnold is doing?

[Snappy]

17. World Markets Colapse?

What the Hell are these Neo Fascist trying to do? Another term and the Repubs won't be able to recognize their own party. America and the world cannot afford another term with these Neo Fascist idiots.

[Dulcinea]

18. With what? His looks?

Is he gonna repeal his beloved tax cuts for corporations & the rich? Not bloody likely!

This isn't something Poppy, Babs, & their pals can bail him out of.

[moondust]

19. Reagan said that, too.

Back then it was called Voodoo Economics. It took a decade to dig the Treasury out of the Reagan/Bush hole. It will take much longer to dig out of Dumya's massive chasm. We no longer have an exploding tech (or other) industry fueling rapid growth and increased tax revenues. Plus any new jobs created today including some of the best jobs are much more likely now to be located offshore and filled by people who will not be paying taxes into the U.S. Treasury.

[snippy]

20. Here is an interesting in-depth and comprehensive analysis of Bush's plan.

[spanone]

21. Hey, this is nothing for a president that lies a nation into war.

[salin]

22. Easy to say when you have a complete disconnect between what

you say and what your administration does. I think that bush's policy disconnect frees him to say just about anything - regardless how ridiculous and orwellian the content. If he doesn't understand (or care to try to understand) the impact of his policies - then he is free to say anything - because it is all gibberish to him anyway.

[LiberalFighter]

23. I want that idiot to state how he is going to cut the deficit in half!!!!!