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womzilla ([personal profile] womzilla) wrote2004-02-15 04:52 pm

It's Happening Here: Part III in, I hope, a short-lived series

Paul Krugman on the latest proposed Presidential Budget:

By my count, this year's budget contains 27 glossy photos of Mr. Bush. We see the president in front of a giant American flag, in front of the Washington Monument, comforting an elderly woman in a wheelchair, helping a small child with his reading assignment, building a trail through the wilderness and, of course, eating turkey with the troops in Iraq. Somehow the art director neglected to include a photo of the president swimming across the Yangtze River.

[identity profile] supergee.livejournal.com 2004-02-15 10:18 pm (UTC)(link)
One of the many reasons I don't want Bush back is so that future budgets don't include videos.

Exactly the same thing was said about Clinton

(Anonymous) 2004-02-16 07:40 am (UTC)(link)
See When did the federal budget become a polemic? (http://slate.msn.com/id/2572/)

"What is most striking to a person who has been reading budgets for a long time is how far the cult of presidential personality has progressed."

What the future holds

[identity profile] dmsherwood53.livejournal.com 2004-02-16 10:38 am (UTC)(link)
We'll know we're really fucked when he goes on to ful frontal poses