The GOP loves stuff like this, because then they can say that Democrats are failing to compromise when they say that this budget is an absolute non-starter. Nothing about it is a good idea, and nothing about it has anything whatsoever to do with deficits or fiscal responsibility. It amazes me that someone who is so concerned about the government turning into Big Brother has such a boner for the military. I would take these dipshits a lot more seriously if they just wanted to gut government wholesale (but I still wouldn't agree, mind you). The point of this budget and of the whole GOP strategy is to completely roll back the New Deal and all of the social reforms of the 50's and 60's, which I believe that the most hard core ideologues in the party think ruined America. Remember when Trent Lott said that if Strom Thurmond had been the President in the 50's we wouldn't have had all "those problems"?