WASHINGTON – President Bush unveiled a $3.1 trillion budget proposal on Monday that supports a sizable increase in military spending to fight the war on terrorism and protects his signature tax cuts.

Bush called the document “a good, solid budget,” but Democrats, and even a top Republican, attacked the plan for using budgetary gimmicks to project a budget surplus in four years.

Comment:

Ah yes….fiscal responsibility, wasn’t it? The hall-mark of the conservative?

But in Bush-speak, more spending equals savings and a budget surplus down the road.

The day when Democrats sound fiscally saner than an incumbent Republican president is the day we know it’s not just the dollar that is on its death-bed.