Is our Preznit Learning?

George Bush is big on playing up John Kerry's plan and its price tag. That would seemingly take a lot o' balls -- which we know that Bush is not blessed with.

The Washington Post does a pretty good smack-down of that little argument. Get a load of the price-tag of the "Bush Plan" (oxymoron I know).

The expansive agenda President Bush laid out at the Republican National Convention was missing a price tag, but administration figures show the total is likely to be well in excess of $3 trillion over a decade.

A staple of Bush's stump speech is his claim that his Democratic challenger, John F. Kerry, has proposed $2 trillion in long-term spending, a figure the Massachusetts senator's campaign calls exaggerated. But the cost of the new tax breaks and spending outlined by Bush at the GOP convention far eclipses that of the Kerry plan.

Bush's pledge to make permanent his tax cuts, which are set to expire at the end of 2010 or before, would reduce government revenue by about $1 trillion over 10 years, according to administration estimates. His proposed changes in Social Security to allow younger workers to invest part of their payroll taxes in stocks and bonds could cost the government $2 trillion over the coming decade, according to the calculations of independent domestic policy experts.

And Bush's agenda has many costs the administration has not publicly estimated. For instance, Bush said in his speech that he would continue to try to stabilize Iraq and wage war on terrorism. The war in Iraq alone costs $4 billion a month, but the president's annual budget does not reflect that cost.

There is NO reason for the fiscally responsible to vote Republican.

Vote for Bush only if you just like blowin' shit up. If you wish to conduct international diplomacy like a demolition derby -- and that is ALL you care about, than the stuffed-flightsuit is your man.