The Great National Embarrassment has to be doing a little of the Gange or a couple of "wake up in the AM" lines or something. Here's from the All-Saddam All-the-Time press conference today. (emphasis added)

Q Thank you, Mr. President. The dollar has fallen quite sharply, Wall Street is increasingly worried about the deficit. Sorry. Wall Street is increasingly worried about the deficit. Will you have a specific plan for reducing the deficit, or will economic growth alone take care of the problem?

THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate that question. Josh Bolten laid out a plan that will shrink the deficit in half in a five-year period, and that's based upon reasonable growth assumptions. And it's a plan that depends upon Congress to continue to hold the line on spending. We have a deficit because of, one, a recession; two, a war. I want to remind you all that in order to fight and win the war, it requires an expenditure of money that is commiserate with keeping a promise to our troops to make sure that they're well paid, well trained, well equipped.

Which Congress is holding the lines on spending again? Or which administration? And supplies for the troops...let's see, the Deficit Dollars go into CheneyBurton and if anyone is lucky some supplies come out the other end. Okay, commiserate might be the right word for that. Jeebus, what an idiot.

"well paid" - never mind about that whole hazardous duty pay reduction thing
"well trained" - arguably they are, but not in Iraqi customs or language
"well equipped" - except for small things like body armor

Yeah, he's on top of screwing the troops...for the benefit of his biggest contributors. Daily.