Bush, Republicans Get Their Dream Budget
by Matt Lewis, 12/13/2007
The Democrats will in fact meet Bush's spending limit. They say they'll try to fund their priority programs over Bush's, and may add funding in "emergency" spending. The worst possible scenario is if they do an across-the-board cut, meaning human needs programs will get cut pretty bad. We'll probably know by tomorrow what the plan is.
The Republican's year-long campaign of obstruction is getting results. These results include: 4 million children to go without health care coverage, maintaining a massive tax loophole for some of the wealthiest people in the country, another year of war and occupation, and the yet-undetermined human damage from cuts in cancer research, Head Start, WIC, and whatever else is squeezed. Congrats.
