Budget Bravado

In a letter to lawmakers, the president's budget director, Rob Portman, ...accused Democrats of doing little to rein in "the unsustainable growth in entitlement spending" on Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare [reports the Washington Post].

Well, they did almost all oppose the trillion-dollar expansion of Medicare in 2003 that then-Rep. Portman voted for and that President Bush bludgeoned reluctant Republicans into supporting.