Breathtaking. President Bush would be perfectly fine with ending all congressional debate over spending for the remainder of his term and just playing army in the Situation Room.
During his speech in Fredricksburg, Va., Bush acknowledged that “we’re making some pretty good progress toward coming up with a fiscally sound budget,” but emphasized that funding for the war needs to be included without an “artificial timetable for [troop] withdrawal.”
Bush added, “If the Congress can’t get the job done — in other words, those jet fumes’ll start to be moving out … pretty soon here, later on this week — if they can’t get the job done, then I’ve got a suggestion for them, and just pass a one-year continuing resolution. That’s all they’ve got to do. If they can’t get the job done, like I’m hopeful they will, then all they’ve got to do is just take what’s called a continuing resolution, get the people’s business done that way and go on home. They’ve got to make sure they fund the troops, though, on the way out of town.”
In other words, he wants to just fund the government at 2007 levels until he leaves office. Technically, he’s supposed to work with Congress to come up with budget for 2009, but why bother? As long as he has money for the troops he doesn’t really want to focus on any of that shit.