Told you so. According to these poll results, a majority of Murkans say that Shrub's spending priorities are out of line with their own:

The American people would like to significantly change next year's federal budget, reversing key proposals by the administration of President George W. Bush, according to a new poll....

Republican and Democratic poll participants alike would take the budget axe to spending on defense and on Iraq and Afghanistan, plowing more funds into education, job training, veterans, and reducing U.S. reliance on oil, the poll found....

Some 63 percent of respondents said they favored rolling back tax cuts for people with incomes in excess of $200,000.

If only our system of government had some mechanism that would allow the public to change leaders to someone whose priorities are more in line with their own. Some sort of a regularly occurring contest in which people could choose one person over another.