He should have done this from the get-go, IMO.
Yes, I understand that with his own party in control of both houses of Congress, it made it difficult to do this and still get everything done that he wanted.
Now that he has gotten everything he wanted, extreme gridlock doesn't seem so bad...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bloomberg/20080128/pl_bloomberg/arjoxb3meak
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President George W. Bush will begin ``unprecedented steps'' to trim billions of dollars earmarked by lawmakers for pet projects, a White House spokesman said.
In his State of the Union address tonight, Bush will promise to ``veto any spending bill that does not succeed in cutting earmarks in half from 2008 levels,'' deputy press secretary Tony Fratto said in an e-mail.
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