The best part about "making the government so small you could drown it in a bathtub" is when it leads conservatives to do asinine things like
this.
WASHINGTON - President Bush asked Congress to eliminate an $8.2 million research program on how to decontaminate buildings attacked by toxins -- the same day a poison-laced letter shuttered Senate offices
Critics said Thursday they were surprised by Bush's request, included in his 2005 budget proposal. Its release coincided with the discovery of the poison ricin in Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist's office on Monday.
"It is a stunning example of the budget choices this administration has made, where tax cuts for elites are more important than public health or adequate homeland security," said Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.
Go Tom go. Now if only he'd been awake when he said it, that would probably have been a strong indictment of an Administration that pursues the interests of the wealthy one percent at the expense of the rest of America-- even its Republican Majority Leader.
The interesting thing here is that this was basically just a way to cut the EPA's budget. The Administration is so hell-bent on kneecapping that agency that they are willing to see horrible poisons proliferate through the capital. Pass it on.