Send Bush a Progressive Balanced Budget

While we are on the subject of using Bush's uni-dimensional mind against him, why don't we send Bush a balanced budget packed with all the stuff we love, and he hates? Let Bush add to his legacy a veto of the first balanced budget since Clinton, while Democrats strengthen their bona-fides with fiscal conservatives.

The essentials of a Progressive balanced budget are three fold:

1. Making the rich pay their fair share: a big chunk of corporate gains under Bush have merely been shipping of Middle Class jobs and wealth overseas. It's time for the rich to pay the piper.

2. A reallocation of money away from militarism to social spending.

3. Avoiding the black-eyes that rightfully accompany earmarks and Bridges to Nowhere, so that at the end of the day when we have to defend the budget,we can do so with honor.

Either way We The People win: The bill becomes law, or it doesn't. If it does, we get perhaps not a dream budget (I realize many people dream of pie in the sky) but at least a good budget. More importantly we strengthen the shaky meme that Democrats are fiscally responsible, while we sear in the meme the Republicans are not.

The path to a permanent majority is before us, we merely have to keep on keeping on.