Bush Seeks $1.9B for Unexpected Disasters

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- President Bush asked Congress on Monday for an additional $1.9 billion to cover more of this year's costs of rebuilding from natural disasters, combatting wildfires and investigating the space shuttle Columbia disaster.

Republican leaders want to move the measure quickly through the House and Senate without any added expenditures, in hopes of heeding an agreement they have reached with Bush to limit spending. But with pressures to provide more money for the AmeriCorps national service organization and other programs, it was unclear whether they would succeed.

The White House is seeking funds for the remaining weeks of the government's budget year, which runs through Sept. 30. All the money would come by enlarging the federal deficit, which is already expected to set a record this year and exceed $400 billion.

Bush is seeking:

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[fertilizeonarbusto]

1. hee

Is his pResidency considered one of those disasters?

[bushh8ter]

2. Teehee beat me to it!

eom

[CheshireCat]

3. another "me too" post

Yes, * is an unexpected disaster.

[AntiCoup2K4]

6. No, I expected him to be a disaster all along.

and he exceeded even my expectations.

Which is probably the only thing the moron ever exceeded in his life.

[drscm]

7. Folks, this headline was just too easy.

Besides, 1.9B would not even pay enough to list them all.

[rock]

4. Give him two bucks and say

"I thought you were exaggerating."

[underpants]

5. $1.9 B Isn't that about the amount of the two tax cuts?

Dick:"Georgie did you throw out the bathwater like I told you to do?"
W:"Yes Unka Dick"
Dick:"Where's the baby?"

[chromotone]

8. Not a lot of money for when Bush's "unexpected disaster" strikes...

1) One-way plane ticket to a third-world country with no extradition treaties with US;
2) Luxurious villa (with state-of-the-art security devices)
3) Full staff of servants
4) "Security team" (army of mercenaries)
5) "Living expenses" (deposited in hidden, overseas accounts)
6) “Walking around money” (for bribes, payoffs, “contracts”)

$1.9B should just about cover it.

[w13rd0]

9. When I first saw the subject line...

...I thought he was asking for 1.9B FOR unexpected disasters, as in, ones he was plannin to surprise us with...