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To: StanX Long who wrote (59995)	2/5/2002 1:51:13 AM
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The president's new budget plan marks the end of a sustained period of fiscal restraint, with the White House pushing for huge boosts in military spending, Line on Fiscal Restraint Suddenly Hard to Hold By Glenn Kessler Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, February 5, 2002; Page A01 washingtonpost.com The president's new budget plan marks the end of a sustained period of fiscal restraint, with the White House pushing for huge boosts in military spending, Congress rushing to defend popular domestic programs, and the public willing to let both sides bust the budget parameters of the recent past. Before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the administration might have paid a political price for proposing a deficit after the long, grinding effort by both parties to hack away at the federal debt. But Democrats spent January insisting that the president's tax cut was irresponsible, and they utterly failed to dent Bush's sky-high approval ratings. Now, many seem ready to join the deficit parade, pledging support for a big military budget while vowing to restore Bush's proposed rollback of many social programs.