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Nope. Apparently El Presidente also learned a bit about accounting from "Kenny Boy".

BW Online | September 10, 2003 | The Neatest Thing about That $87 Billion: "Time to follow Alice for another quick trip down Washington's rabbit hole. Just take a look at what's about to happen with President Bush's request for $87 billion to continue U.S. military operations and reconstruction in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Bush will get the money from Congress, all right. But that's where things will begin to get strange. The President and congressional leaders are going to try to make $87 billion in federal spending disappear. How? By treating it as if it were off-budget spending."

One effect this will have is that it will allow Bush to claim that discretionary spending only went up by 4% this year, though the total spending of the government will be up almost 15%. But hey, at this point they have to be figuring, "What's one more lie?"