BUSH: Secondly, when it comes to discretionary spending – nonsecurity discretionary spending, the budget I submitted to the United States Congress actually reduces nondiscretionary – or discretionary, nonsecurity spending.
And as a matter of fact, if you look at the trend line for nonsecurity discretionary spending, I think it’s pretty – 6 percent when I first was elected. It’s down to negative now.
It means you hate freedom.
is this from today’s press conference?
Yes…it was an interesting one. I enjoyed the lesson on avian flu.
is there a transcript somewhere? Link?
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Here you go:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/10/04/bush.transcript/
I watched it “live” on MSNBC.com. It’s so rare for President Bush to give a press conference like this, it’s always interesting to watch live.
Edit: Doesn’t look like the link above has the questions, just his opening statement, sorry.
Check nytimes.com; that’s where I got it from.
Interesting question when someone compared his statement about knowing Miers to his defense of Rafael Palmiero before he tested positive for steroids. He didn’t address the question…