110^th in continuing blog series on the administration push to war. As November begins, things do not get any easier for the White House, politically. Fiscal Year 2004 appropriations bills are passed, increasing the federal budget deficit to new record highs with a continuing combination of regressive tax cuts for the wealthy, uneconomic lack of societal support, and the costs of the ‘war on terror’. For the dates from Nov. 1 through Dec. 9, 2003, the non-profit organization Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) later determines that the Office of Management and Budget has no email ...   more »