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Like Drunken Sailors, Part MMCCXVIII: Congress, and the president, just can't -- won't -- stop spending.

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| September 15, 2003 | Moore, Stephen | COPYRIGHT 2003 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Before Congress departed for its August recess, conservatives suffered a series of budget-policy setbacks -- each of which dramatized the sudden ascendancy of big-government Republicanism in Washington.

-- All but 19 House Republicans voted to approve the Medicare prescription-drug bill, the biggest new entitlement program since the 1960s; the Senate passed an even more expensive version. Economic forecasters say the bill will add another $5 trillion of unfunded liabilities to the system -- the equivalent of doubling the national debt with one stroke of the pen.

-- The White House Office of Management and Budget projected a deficit of $455 billion this ...

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