When Congress voted to cover prescription-drug costs for Medicare beneficiaries, President Bush got a chance to boast of his Trumanesque buck-stopping as the nation's top executive. "We have a responsibility in Washington to solve problems and not pass them on," he said. As the largest expansion of the program since its inception in 1965, the $400 billion plan was a big solution indeed. But for a band of deficit hawks and rainy-day worriers in Washington, it was a horror--the latest evidence that in the past five years they have become voices in the wilderness. How to keep the federal budget in...
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