Via TPM, what goes up can never go down:
The services have been laying the groundwork for the request for several months. Earlier this year, briefing slides showing $60 billion to $80 billion per year in new expenditures started making the rounds inside the Beltway, supported by a public campaign by conservative think tanks and politicians […]

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So now, Teh Leader is getting Pooty-Poot all in an uproar because he wants to deploy a misssle shield in Europe, which Russia opposes. Which you can understand why; if you and I are former adversaries and possible future adversaries and I have a shield and you don’t have a shield, why, then, I can […]

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That would be the guy now in the White House:
If President Bush’s budget for fiscal 2009 is approved in its current form, U.S. government spending will have increased by more than $1.2 trillion since President Clinton left office; adjusted for inflation, that’s a 35% increase. Bush has increased spending at three times the rate Clinton […]

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