This is old,but why din't Kerry jump on this.

[dave502d]

In other words he's going to increase it just for this year, the same thing in elementary and secondary education, he's increasing it by $834 million, but he will cut it by five and a half billion over the next four years. Those are the administration's own budget documents for 2006 through 2009 --

JIM LEHRER: What does it say?

MARK SHIELDS: What it says is he made promises he can't keep. The president got the biggest cheer in the hall when he said I'm going to make permanent the tax cuts. He didn't address the deficits anyway.

And he said we're going to cut this runaway federal spending. When he calls for an increase in federal spending for this election year, then he's going to meet his cuts over the next - these are his own budget documents, David.

DAVID BROOKS: I'm confused how that could be because, the overall spending is on each of these departments is going up either 8, 10, 12 percent… I don't know what programs, how that can...

MARK SHIELDS: It's, by law, you're required and administration did put it on its web site that it did have to share it with congressional budget committees that by law you have to give not simply your proposal for the first fiscal year, but you have to give them for 2006 through 2009, and that's to meet the budget caps the president and the White House has laid down, each of these departments has to cut these programs by this much.

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