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Budget

• June 10 -- Reagan's Budgetary Dishonesty Continues With Bush
David Rosenbaum thinks Reagan began a trend in budgetary dishonesty that Bush continues today.

• February 12 -- "Conservatives" and "Others"
"Two kinds of senators at the Times."

• February 3 -- Deep Cuts in a 2.4 Trillion Budget?
Elisabeth Bumiller wonders if Bush can survive the political fallout from his new budget that "forces him to cut so deeply."

• February 2 -- Still No Liberals Here
Once again, a Robert Pear story finds no liberals in Congress, only "conservatives" and Democrats.

• September 29 -- California Needs Higher Taxes, Part 2
Dean Murphy is another Times reporter suggesting Schwarzenegger would have to raise taxes as governor, claiming the “state's formidable obstacles to raising taxes” have “tied [Gray] Davis's hands in keeping the state fiscally afloat. On the bright side: a Schwarzenegger win could mean a tax hike.

• September 24 -- Rebuilding Plans for War-Torn America?
David Firestone’s dispatch on Paul Bremer’s Capitol Hill appearance passes on Democratic criticism equating rebuilding in war-torn Iraq to “rebuilding” in the U.S.: “Democratic senators said that the request was probably far smaller than the eventual total would be and that similar rebuilding plans at home were being neglected.”

• July 2 -- The Times’ Tax-Hike Crusade Trickles Down
The Times’ tax-hike crusade trickles down to the states, as the myth of falling tax revenues in Oregon resurfaces in a story on state budget woes.

• April 16 -- Three Jeers For Tax Cuts!
Bush lowered his tax cut and was greeted with the sort of front-page enthusiasm the Times could never quite muster over Iraq’s liberation.

• April 15 -- Krugman’s Non-Existent “Cuts”
Paul Krugman twice accuses House Republicans of cutting veterans’ benefits. But the VA’s budget will increase from $26.9 billion to $34.1 billion under the Bush plan. Wasn’t Krugman once a respected economist?