Bush's budget games

The deadline to renew funding for the federal government for the 2008 fiscal year has passed. When Congress returns on Monday, it will be October, which is when the next fiscal year begins.  Today President Bush signed a document that gives Congress a 48-day extension to pass a budget.

Of course, Congress already supports a budget, but Bush won't sign it because it exceeds his request by $23 billion -- the cost of funding the war for less than two months.  Last year though, the President allowed the Republican Congress to exceed his budget request by $53 million.

In his weekly radio address, Bush took aim:

"Earlier this year, congressional leaders promised to show that theycould be responsible with the people's money. Unfortunately they seemto have chosen the path of higher spending," the president said in hisweekly radio address.

Who is choosing the path to higher spending?  Is it a President that never chose to veto a single spending bill until the Democrats took Congress this January?

Comments

[Ted K.]

So what is exactly the problem?
I thought your party was about bringing fiscal responsiblity back to the hill.
If that is true, why don't you send him a budget that is less than what he wants.
Hey, I am with you in that when the republicans owned the House, Senate and Presidency, the spending was obscene.

But if you think that the Dems in Washington are going to not tack on pork spending or spend less when they have the purse, you have got to get a grip.

As much as it pains me to say Republicans love to spend when in power as do Dems.
I am sickened when a non conservative minded person claims he/she is republican and has conservative ideals and then spends like a drunken Democrat.

THAT is a major reason that the republicans lost seats.