Vowing to fight Barack Obama's budget in Congress, Republicans have resorted to a three-pronged attack: the president is proposing unprecedented spending, irresponsible taxation, and using dishonest projections about how to pay for it all.
On the latter front, the GOP got a bit of an assist Sunday morning from Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen.
During an appearance on Fox News Sunday, the head of U.S. military forces said he didn't know where the Obama administration was getting its long-term projections for the money it will save by drawing down the war in Iraq. Asked by host Chris Wallace whether it was a budgetary "gimmick" that the government would save $183 billion in 2019 simply by drawing down the war in the next few years, Mullen said he wasn't sure. But he did say, on two occasions, that he never had seen that number before, the implicit message -- at least the one pushed by Wallace -- being that Obama had chosen rosy figures to meet its deficit reduction strategy.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/01/adm-mullen-i-dont-know-wh_n_170848.html
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