Up Is Down

What does the most unpopular President in American history do for his curtain call budget? Well what did you think he would do? (from WaPo):

President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget on Monday that supports sizable increases in military spending to fight the war on terrorism and protects his signature tax cuts.

The spending proposal, which shows the government spending $3 trillion in a 12-month period for the first time in history, squeezes most of government outside of national security, and also seeks $196 billion in savings over the next five years in the government's giant health care programs _ Medicare for the elderly and Medicaid for the poor.

Even with those savings, Bush projects that the deficits, which had been declining, will soar to near-record levels, hitting $410 billion this year and $407 billion in 2009. The all-time high deficit in dollar terms was $413 billion in 2004.

He sets fire to the place. It would be giving too much credit to the person and the people who surround him to be angry. They're thieves plain and simple and nothing should surprise us. How it took most of the electorate a second disastrous term to figure it out is what pisses me off.