Bush Spending

The Wall Street Journal has an interesting article outling the problems President Bush is going to face as he responds to those in both political parties who have criticized his supposed lack of discipline in controlling spending during his first term. As a man who seems to keep his promises and be a man of his word, the goal of reducing the federal deficit in coming budgets will be loudly renounced as he goes about reaching that goal. Anytime the entrenched factions in Washington are forced to actually make choices and prioritize spending, there will be squeals about how unfair it is to hold some program to last years levels. We can expect the ones to complain loudest will be those who ran to the microphones to decry deficits in the past. I say "Go George".