Better Late Than Never
Posted at 6:58pm on Jan. 31, 2008 Bush The Spending Hawk
Starting The Bidding Low
By Dan McLaughlin
This AP report suggests that President Bush may be submitting his most frugal budget yet, in his final year in office:
President George W. Bush's 2009 budget will virtually freeze most domestic programs and seek nearly $200 billion in savings from federal health care programs, a senior administration official said Thursday.
Given that this is an election-year budget submitted by a lame duck president to a hostile Congress, don't hold your breath waiting for this to get enacted. But for once, the Bush White House may be taking steps to draw an election-year contrast on spending, and just as a candidate who has sought to brand himself as a spending hawk seems poised to take the party's nomination. Maybe some parts of the GOP's domestic-policy brand can be salvaged yet. How does Bush propose to save that money?
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