Here’s another 2 or 3 “slightly minor” budget slip-ins that amount to , oh, just over a TRILLION dollars. Is the American public really this stupid? How can they EXCUSE this “tad bit” of obscuring the bare-bones facts (ie. what the programs actually cost).

I am a Christian Too » Bush’s Immoral Budget

To meet its claimed target of cutting the deficit in half by 2009, the new budget omits the cost of the war in Iraq; the cost of the president’s proposed private accounts for Social Security; and the cost of correcting the alternative minimum tax, which is hitting growing numbers of middle-class taxpayers rather than the rich it is intended for.

To make its already unaffordable tax cuts permanent, the administration wants to change the budget-scoring rules so that the cuts show up on the score card as cost-free. In fact, making them permanent would cost $1.1 trillion over the next 10 years…