Billmon: Big Spender

What is clear from the report is that the vast majority of federal expenditures will not go toward innovative economic development programs, such as the ones laid out by Bush on Thursday night, but to more old-fashioned government programs: dredging of shipping lanes, building highways and bridges, cash assistance for the dislocated and home-building.

Washington Post
Bush Says Spending Cuts Will Be Needed
September 17, 2005

The minute you walked in the joint
I could see you were a man of distinctionA real big spender . . .
Hey big spender, spend a little time with me.

Dorothy Fields
Big Spender
1966

One of the most surprising things about the metamorphosis of George W. Bush into the son that LBJ never had is how big of a break it marks with the Rovian political play book to date: Not because Bush is proposing to spend a whole fuckload of other people's money (that's been the operative strategy since 9/11) but because he's actually bragging about it, instead of pretending not to notice.