If I don't die by Thursday, I'll be roaring Friday night.

The Republican's just passed a budget blueprint for 2006 that slashes domestic spending by almost $150 billion over the next five years. Yet, our fearless leaders still managed to increase the projected deficit by more than $125 billion over the same period (and by more than $1 trillion through 2015). Wait a second, didn't Dubya promise to cut the deficit in half in 3 years during his re-election campaign?!

First, I wonder which domestic spending programs are being crushed - most likely welfare and education. Let's stick it to the little guy and the most vulnerable. Then I wonder how is it possible to decrease spending and increase the deficit. Oh, never mind, now I got it. They just budgeted a whole slew of tax cuts for the wealthy.

How do you account for the unprecedented Shrub-inspired swing from a record budget surplus to a record deficit, the unmistakable long-term trend of the rich-getting-richer, poor-getting-poorer income redistribution, the out-of-control costs of the war machine, the ever weakening dollar, record gas prices and continuing rising oil prices and ballooning record deficits in trade and investment - which means the US has to borrow $2.1 billion a day from countries like China?

Go Republicans!