Okay, so in a very short bit of posting you've gone from slyly alleging that Bush's "off budget" stuff was a thing of "corruption" to being "spending tricks" and now it's just a "delay in the full accounting." Nice attempt at a smear job there Andy.
What the Bush administration has done with the supplemental funding requests has been anything but an attempt to "hide" those moneys. Those requests have come in and gone through their full and just "due diligence" in the appropriations process. They've also been ultimately accounted for. There's nothing "hidden" or "spending trick" about them.
If anything, by funding the Iraq fighitng in such a separate process that has given Congress more visibility into it and thus has a better grasp as to the detail of the expenses.
That Obama is now rolling it all together may make it appear a more nice 'n tidy thing but does not enhance its transparency on the whole. Yet another promise by Obama (his pledge of increased "transparency" in his administration) that he's happily reneging on.
Re: Off Budget?
Okay, so in a very short bit of posting you've gone from slyly alleging that Bush's "off budget" stuff was a thing of "corruption" to being "spending tricks" and now it's just a "delay in the full accounting." Nice attempt at a smear job there Andy.
What the Bush administration has done with the supplemental funding requests has been anything but an attempt to "hide" those moneys. Those requests have come in and gone through their full and just "due diligence" in the appropriations process. They've also been ultimately accounted for. There's nothing "hidden" or "spending trick" about them.
If anything, by funding the Iraq fighitng in such a separate process that has given Congress more visibility into it and thus has a better grasp as to the detail of the expenses.
That Obama is now rolling it all together may make it appear a more nice 'n tidy thing but does not enhance its transparency on the whole. Yet another promise by Obama (his pledge of increased "transparency" in his administration) that he's happily reneging on.
Madoc