Today's Quote on Fiscal Irresponsibility (or Hypocrisy)

"It is extraordinary that the president would request an 11 percent increase for the Department of Defense, a 12 percent increase for foreign aid, and $195 billion of emergency funding for the war while asserting that a 4.7 percent increase for domestic programs is fiscally irresponsible" -- Sen. Robert Byrd (D- WV), chairman of Senate Appropriations Committee