The Senate has passed a resolution requesting that President Bush submit projected war costs in the U.S. budget he submits to . The resolution was authored by Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV). He said,

Over the last three and a half years, at a time when the government is swimming in red ink, the White House has charged an additional $280 billion on the national credit card, without proposing a single dime of that spending in its annual budget proposals

“The White House said war costs are too hard to predict”. So not only do we have a President who can take our country to war without the consent of Congress (because they provided him with that authority) but he can apparently spend whatever he wants without the consent of Congress.

I’m not sure there is much left in our form of government that resembles a .

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