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Blowing it: the administration's spending is inexcusable, no matter what the White House spin.(Public Policy)
TO the chagrin of fiscal conservatives, the Bush administration is set to achieve a record of spending growth unseen since the era of Lyndon B. Johnson. In December, perhaps sensing that all was not well among the president's supporters, Joshua Bolten, his budget chief, energetically defended the administration in the op-ed pages of the Wall Street Journal, and then, in February, returned to the fray by testifying in front of the House Budget Committee. After scrutinizing his assertions, it's difficult not to conclude that the administration is spinning so hard on this one it's positively Clintonesque.
Take, for example, the claim we hear most often to justify ...
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