Bush now says that those who oppose making his tax cuts permanent are in favor of "raising taxes" -- preposterous double speak. After all, it was Bush who sold the tax cuts as being a "mere" X trillion dollars
because they were going to be phased out over ten years. If Bush himself had originally proposed them as permanent, instead of phasing out, with the huge numbers that would have entailed, even Rove would have laughed him off the national stage. So Mr. President, you can't have it both ways. You can't sell your tax cuts as costing only X dollars to get people to go along, and then revise the cut's phase-out provisions (which you inserted to sell the plan in the first place) so they cost 3X or 4X the original amount. Get real.
Bottom line is we just can't afford all the goodies Bush wants to lavish on his buddies. Bush, you're a spendthrift, and like a lousy mistress, just too damn expensive.