Damned

Ron Suskind, author of The Price of Loyalty: The Edication of Paul O'Neil, has published some of the memos O'Neil gave him. Here is a an excerpt from one on Bush's first budget:

Key background information: The public prefers spending on things like health care and education over cutting taxes. It's crucial that your remarks make clear that there is no trade off here--that we will boost education spending and set aside Social Security and Medicare surplus to address the future of those programs, and still we will have an enormous surplus. This isn't an "either/or" question.

If this stuff gets the press it deserves, Bush is in a lot of trouble. Its like all the scum is bubbling to the surface at once. Let's hope this dynamic continues through November.

Thanks to Brad DeLong