Honest Obama - Playing Tricks with the Budget

Having agreed on a budget for the coming year, Congress and the White House are doing what follows next in Washington: trying to get around it.

President Barack Obama’s spending plan would effectively use funds from his stimulus program to pad next year’s accounts in the Department of Homeland Security. The House wants to go in the opposite direction: front-end-loading 2010 foreign aid money into 2009 to buy more room for domestic spending next year.

And for all the talk about honest budgeting, the administration badly understated the military’s true personnel costs when the president submitted his war funding request in April. - Politico Story

Here we go. Mr. "Blame it on Bush" Obama is playing the shell game with the American Public. He bashed Bush for the way that he handled the budget, now Obama is doing the same thing. Not only did he get the biggest budget in history, now he is asking for more money because he didn't have it in his budget.