Bush's Brain doesn't appear to be quite so prescient in the face of a potential global flu epidemic.
Writing in a column in the Wall Street Journal in February, Rove attacked Democrats for what he dubbed as reckless spending — stimulus money being doled out to industries "that added jobs last year."
Among them? Education and healthcare.
What nefarious programs were Democrats trying to insert? Among other things, Rove cited $900 million for "pandemic flu preparations."
"There's also $4 billion for health programs like obesity control and smoking cessation, $2 billion for the National Institutes of Health, $462 million for the Centers for Disease Control, and $900 million for pandemic flu preparations," Rove wrote.
"It is not surprising that the stimulus package is laden with new spending programs," the former Deputy White House chief of staff continued. "Much of it is spending Democrats couldn't get approved in the normal course of affairs… Putting budgets of political allies above the budgets of struggling families is apparently the new Democratic trickle-down economics."
The $900 million Rove rebuked was killed when House and Senate negotiators met to iron out differences of the stimulus package between the two chambers. The Senate nixed the provision, while the House had voted for it.
http://rawstory.com/08/blog/2009/04/27/rove-mocked-spending-on-flu-preparedness/
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