Resetting the Baseline

I wish I could remember where I first heard this mentioned (so I could give credit where credit is due), but there is another thing to remember about letting the Dems run a $1T+ deficit and it has nothing to do with "economic stimulus":

This new spending amount will become the baseline for the next budget.

You know the old saying "Use it or lose it?" when it comes to government spending?  Well, this new deficit will mean that, by Congressional standards, every agency that gets money in this "special times" "stimulus" will be able to complain about "slashed" budgets next year if they do not get the same amount of money.

Thus the Dems will do two things:

1. Retain much if not all of the additional spending.
2. Trumpet their fiscal conservatism as they "slash the budget" when all they are really doing is reducing the 2010 budget to, say, 25% more than it was in 2008 . . . but they will call it a reduction since it is less than what was spent in the "special year" of 2009.

And they will get away with it to because the Reps don't have the ba . . . er, courage to stand up to them and tell the nation what is really going on.