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Originally Posted by awpitt Exactly. Bush could've stopped the deficit spending with a stroke of his pen. There were few, if any, veto proof majorities when Congress passed the appropriations bills. |
"We don't do that in this city. We just conveniently charge it to our grandchildren," Coburn said in debate before the vote, noting the record $482 billion deficit projected yesterday for 2009.
And just look at the flack the good doctor is getting from the Socialists.