Story first, commentary later:
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush warned Congress on Saturday that he will use his veto power to stop runaway government spending.
"The American people do not want to return to the days of tax-and-spend policies," Bush said in his radio address. (Emphasis: Mine)
The House passed a $37 billion budget for the Homeland Security Department on Friday, but Republicans rallied enough votes to uphold a promised veto from Bush.
The measure — one of several annual spending bills that Congress began to consider this week — exceeds Bush's request for the department by $2.1 billion.
Democrats on Friday defended the extra money in the homeland security bill, noting it contains money to hire 3,000 additional border agents, improve explosive detection at airports and provides money to double the amount of cargo screened on passenger aircraft.
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Okay. Let's review here. Bush now wants to talk like a fiscal conservative, when we talk about making sure that the Government has what it needs for more Security. (Again, Emphasis: Mine).
Yet by March of 2006, we have raised the debt ceiling four times since he's been in office. No. Iraq isn't runaway Government spending. I just don't get it. What is this cognitive dissonance? Furthermore, how come Republicans are now so concerned about earmarks? They weren't concerned with them when they were in the majority. Man this hypocrisy is really annoying me.