No Escaping the Red Ink as Bush Pens ’04 Agenda By RICHARD W. STEVENSON and EDMUND L. ANDREWS, NYTimes

Howard Dean, issued a statement this week asserting that the White House’s fiscal policy would ultimately come back to haunt the country.

”This president’s approach,” Dr. Dean said, ”is the equivalent of mortgaging your house to get spending money for the weekend.”

At the same time, Mr. Bush is coming under intensifying pressure from conservatives in the Republican ranks who want him to do more to choke off what they see as an orgy of spending since he took office.