With the possibility of a government shutdown looming in the distance, President Bush has vetoed yet another spending bill that might actually improve the crumbling infrastructure of the country,
a $150-billion health, education and labor bill which the White House faults for $10 billion in excessive spending and too much “pork.”
Bush characterizes the Democratic Congress as “acting like a teenager with a new credit card.” Whoa, wait just one minute. That’s completely unfair. To teenagers.
There are scores of teenagers more responsible than Congress or President Bush will ever be. Given their parent’s credit card and explicit instructions only to buy new clothes and back to school gear, they will do as requested then return the card. Bush and Congress, conversely, are co-authors of the trillion dollar war and high-income tax reduction.
A president with the emotional and fiscal maturity of a two-year-old should hope he can one day be as irresponsible as a teenager.
