Nothing Says Peace Like a Budget Deadline

Today the Administration unveiled a budget that promises to balance the federal budget by 2012. How, you may ask. The budget allocates absolutely nothing to wars in Afghanistan or Iraq after 2009. I guess the President is confident that peace will break out in two years and that our permanent military bases will sustain themselves by opening brewpubs and selling surplus ammunition.

This whole budget looks a little shaky considering that the Administration said it would need $117 billion to fight in Iraq this year, but has ended up asking for a little over $170 billion. It is also a little shaky given that this Administration predicted that the Iraq war would last "maybe six weeks..."

But at least none of our money is going toward nefarious stem cell research.