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“This administration is populated by people who’ve spent their careers bashing government. They’re not just small-government conservatives—they’re Grover Norquist, strangle-it-in-the-bathtub conservatives. It’s a cognitive disconnect for them to be able to do something well in an arena that they have so derided and reviled all these years.”

Senator Hillary Clinton

Sunday, September 18, 2005

On cutting taxes and Katrina

I'm sure I'm not the first to point out that when it came to cutting taxes for the wealthy, Republicans had no problem overlooking a balanced budget. And of course now that the Katrina price tag looks like it will top $200 billion, mostly for poor black people, Republicans are balking at picking up the tab.

Apart from the crassness of it all, does that mean if future tax cuts can't be justified with offset spending cuts, that Bush and Congressional Republicans won't be supporting them either?

posted by Scott @ 5:37 PM