President Bush's FY 2009 budget continues to receive poor reviews into its second week. We reviewed a number of those reactions last week (see our summary posts here and here), and below are some additional disappointed reviews:

• The Daily Tar Heel: Budget May Cut Student Loans
• BlackAmericaWeb: Reading Is Fundamental's Program Target of Major Cuts
• Center for American Progress: Bush's Budget Cuts Aid to Displaced Workers
• The Buffalo News: Bush Budget Disappoints
• Washington Post: No Funds in Bush Budget For Troop-Benefits Plan
• WP's Stephen Barr: Social Security, DHS Say Bush's Budget Falls Short

More reactions and analysis of the president's budget have emerged since our first round-up post on Tuesday:

• CBPP: President's Budget and Medicare "Trigger"
• NWLC: Budget Woes: President's FY 2009 Budget
• Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget: The President's FY 2009 Budget
• The Workforce Alliance: FY 2009 Federal Funding Analyses

There have also been a number of statements and analyses circulated from Capitol Hill:

• Senate Budget Committee Dems: Brief Analysis of Bush FY 2009 Budget
• Sen. Conrad (D-ND): Statement on FY 2009 Budget Release
• Majority Leader Hoyer (D-MD): Bush's Legacy: Fiscal Meltdown, Weak Economy
• House Budget Committee: State-by-State Analysis of President's FY 2009 Budget Request
• Speaker Pelosi (D-CA): Statement on President Bush's FY 2009 Budget
• Majority Leader Hoyer: Statement on Bush's Release of Another Fiscally Irresponsible Budget
• Sen. Gregg (R-NH): Statement on FY 2009 Budget Release
• Senate Budget Committee Repubs: Overview of President's Budget

Since the president's FY 2009 budget request was mostly a rehash of old policies and proposals we've already spent time debunking in previous years, we've been looking for some new angles with which to view the president's budget. As I was sitting at my desk looking at the budget books in my office, the actual length of the main budget volume released this year jumped out at me. Or I should say, it didn't jump out at me. Turns out the main budget book for the FY 2009 budget is the shortest one ever released by the president. At 170 pages, it is more than 45 percent shorter than the average length of the budget book released each year by President Bush (which came in at 311 pages. Not sure what one can make of this change, particularly since the FY 2008 budget is also much shorter than the Bush average. This particular part of the president's budget proposal has evolved during the Bush administration to be a fancy, glossy, picture-filed advertisement for the administration's achievements and priorities, with little hard budgetary information. It is developed, I suppose, to help the administration put the best spin on their budget proposal and successes. I wonder if the Bush administration is tired of actively selling their misguided priorities, particularly in this final year and that is the reason for the shorter volume? Or perhaps they have realized they really don't have many budget achievements that they should be bragging about?

The day after President Bush released his $3.1 trillion budget for FY 2009, analysts and advocacy groups have begun to roll out reactions and statements on the proposal. Below are a few out so far: CBPP: Federal Grants to State and Localities Cut Deeply CBPP: The Dubious Priorities of the President's Budget FRAC: Statement on Nutrition Program Changes in Budget NWLC: Bush Budget Locks in Gains for the Rich, Short Changes Women and Families We'll post more statements and analyses as they are released. OMB Watch's overview of the budget will be released this afternoon in the next edition of The Watcher (Sign up here if you don't receive The Watcher).