Deficits Disappear! Vetoes without Votes! Budget Bombast! Some seriously silly circus tricks are on daily display this Halloween season as three-ring leader President Bush pushes the bounds of credulity, for a man who has single-handedly added over $3,000,000,000,000.00 (three tril) to the national debt. His biggest and most mendacious trick is a sleight-of-hand to convince the children of the jury that the spending bills passed by the House, and sometimes the Senate, are budget-busting veto bait, exceeding his $730 billion in requests by around $20 billion. This, despite the fact that not a single bill has been conferenced, no votes on final passage have been held. But that doesn't stop the Maestro from issuing veto threats without waiting for votes. You see, he really, really does think deficits matter. Now that the Democrats run Congress, that is. As spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) said recently: President Bush has signed into law tens of billions above his request when it is for his failed Iraq policy but refuses to support a penny above his request when Democrats try to invest in domestic priorities. For a reprise of the various acts of fiscal farce, featuring disappearing deficits and budget-fudging, see Collender's latest, here.