Bush's budget hypocrisy: the art of political convenience

Instead of turning this into one of my typically redundant posts about Bush hypocrisy (oops, pardon the title!), how about we just let the facts do the talking.

• In 2006, President Bush allowed Congress to exceed his budget request by $53 billion.
• In 2007, President Bush is scolding Congress for exceeding his budget request by just $22 billion.

So what are the additional increases this year?

The additional funding has long been sought by Democrats and includesbudget increases for dozens of favored domestic programs, includinggrants to local governments, education, homeland security, lawenforcement and health research.

Bottom line: Bush -- the same Bush that campaigned on wanting to protect this country -- is threatening to veto a bill that would protect our homeland from terrorism, increase money for police and give local municipalities the breathing room in their budgets to make their communities more secure.

If you want to expand on the whole "Bush hypocrisy" theme, remember that this was a President who did not veto any spending bills when the Republicans had control of Congress.

For the last time, can you say 'hypocrisy'?  In the end, how can anyone blame us for being redundant when this happens over and over again.