Fiscal Conservative

Jonathan Weisman has an article that starts out explaining that President Bush, you know the one that won, is planning to "make good" on his vow:

The White House will seek to drastically shrink the Department of Housing and Urban Development's $8 billion community branch, purging dozens of economic development projects, scrapping a rural housing program and folding high-profile anti-poverty efforts into the Labor and Commerce departments, administration officials said yesterday.

The proposal in the upcoming 2006 budget would make good on President Bush's vow to eliminate or consolidate what he sees as duplicative or ineffective programs. Officials said yesterday that economic development programs are scattered too widely in the government and have proved particularly ineffectual at HUD.

However, further into the article we get the negative spin. Isn't it shocking a President that was criticized for not being more fiscally conservative in his first term, gets reelected after a "vow" to eliminate..., and proposes policies that are fiscally conservative. Imagine him actually doing what his supporters wanted him to do. You can read the article here