Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[ergo sum]

More fiscal irresponsibility.

Bush, accused by Democrats of shortchanging homeland security, is blaming the GOP-controlled Congress for underfunding programs to guard against terrorism. Mr. Bush told the National Governors Association this week that Congress "did not respond to the $3.5 billion we asked for -- they not only reduced the budget that we asked for, they earmarked a lot of the money" for other unrelated programs. "Tactically, that was a stupid thing for the [White House] to do," a senior House GOP aide said yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13625-2003Feb27.html