Phony Budget Tells All

by Clive Crook

Sat. Feb. 9, 2008


A plan to spend $3.1 trillion of taxpayers' money next year ought to be worth a moment's attention. Not so, judging by the reception of the president's budget on Monday. The administration's multivolume plan seemed even more pointless than usual. People had Super Tuesday on their minds -- not to mention that the document is a work of purest fantasy. George W. Bush will be elsewhere in 2009, and his successor will have his or her own ideas about fiscal policy (which Congress will probably also ignore).

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