Weekly News Roundup, with your anchor George Orwell

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President Bush, appearing on Meet The Press with host Tim Russert:

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Russert: How? why, as a fiscal conservative as you like to call yourself, would you allow a $500 billion deficit and this kind of deficit disaster?

President Bush: Sure. The budget I just proposed to the Congress cuts the deficit in half in five years.

Now, I don't know what the assumptions are in the GAO report, but I do know that if Congress is wise with the people's money, we can cut the deficit in half. And at that point in time, as a percentage of GDP, the deficit will be relatively low.

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Russert: But your base conservatives and listen to Rush Limbaugh, the Heritage Foundation, CATO Institute, they're all saying you are the biggest spender in American history.

President Bush: Well, they're wrong.*

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In other news, the American Bar Association announced that a top lawyer at Microsoft has been named to chair the Antitrust Committee for the ABA.**

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In tonight's final story, Diebold, makers of new high-tech touch screen voting systems announced last week that “Maryland Security Study Validates Diebold Election Systems Equipment for March Primary”.***

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*“There's the overstatement of the current deficit in order to make plausible the claim that they will cut it in half in three years.”

** No links needed. Welcome to the post-ironic age.

***"We were genuinely surprised at the basic level of the exploits that allowed tampering". Just for fun, search Google for "Diebold, Maryland, Raba" and look at how the mainstream media outlets reported this story.