HARD TO BE POSITIVE, PART I

John Dean's most recent Findlaw column links to this paper (PDF file) by Allen Schick on Bush's budgetary policies.

The Republican strategy here -- enact tax cuts and bet that ballooning deficits will force hard choices on spending priorities -- is a gamble with our future. It's also fundamentally dishonest, a long-term governing plan that is not announced in major presidential speeches but nonetheless a guiding vision for this administration and its Republican allies in the House and Senate. And it's blatantly in contradiction with the President's professed wish not to leave current problems "for future generations," unless you twist the word "crushing deficit" into something that can be left out of the "current problem left for future generations" box.