Bush budget services the base

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What a surprise:

Bush's spending plan would make his first-term tax cuts [for the super-rich] permanent, at a cost of $1.6 trillion over 10 years.

$1.6 trillion.... Whoever said the anti-Democrats were heartless, uncaring, monsters?

I mean, surely there's Bipartisan agreement that the rich don't already have enough money, and that those who, say, lack health insurance should die, because that's God's will?

NOTE Is my recollection correct that sunsetting the tax cuts for the rich to expire this year was just an accounting gimmick to help Bush run up the deficit?

UPDATE Having failed to abolish Social Security on the up-and-up, Bush now seeks to destroy it by stealth:

He included the private accounts again in this year's budget. But to minimize the impact, he only showed the program taking effect in 2012, when the private accounts would cost $29.3 billion.

What a wuss. You'd think Bush could at least have the courage of his (bad) convictions (sorry, Scooter, didn't mean to make you wince, there.)

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