Larry Elder’s recent column on the 2006 federal budget and its lack of a constitutional foundation lays waste to any argument of Bush: the fiscal conservative. I for one am sick and tired of the rhetoric that bubbles out of the GOP come election time but seems to evaporate into thin air when everyone gets together to draw up a budget. Sure Bush is 1000x better than Kerry would have been, but that isn’t saying a whole hell of a lot. You can’t cut taxes and then spend like you are FDR. I love the tax cuts, but this sort of fantasy budget is going to have serious consequences on the fixed income and currency markets. I am hoping we have some principled conservatives in the house willing to have another Alamo over this bill.