Yesterday two Senators come on to discuss Bush's budget. Bush's budget is a bit comic to me (yeah, I know) so I excitedly click to listen to the interview, which is here.
Kent Conrad (D-ND) comes on and complains that Bush's budget just doesn't include (1) any costs of the war in Iraq past September 30, 2005, (2) "the trillions of dollars" that Bush's social security privatization plan will cost (not like it's gonna get passed, but still), (3) $700 billion to fix the Alternative Minimum Tax, and (4) $1.7 trillion to make Bush's tax cuts permanent over the next ten years.
At about 2:40 of the interview, superstar Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH) responds, and it really is a classic.:
"As to the, uh, specific issue of for example war costs, five years from now hopefully we won't be at war. In fact, I'm sure we won't be at war in Iran or Iraq, and, uh, or, in, (hhrmm), in Iraq or Afghanistan, and as a result, uh, we shouldn't be building that number into the base."I mean, it's probably not true, obviously, but that bit about Iran?
Yikes.
