George W. Bush, a/k/a, “the Weakener-in-Chief,” and his Weakentroopers in Congress continue working hard to, you guessed it, weaken the nation:

Over the next week, Congress is likely to trim federal spending and insist with a straight face that it’s getting government spending under better control.

It’s not.

“The facts are not partisan and they’re not ideological,” said David Walker, the nation’s comptroller general. He should know. He’s the nation’s chief accountant and signs off on the government’s balance sheet. America’s fiscal future, he said, “is worse than advertised.”

And, do the Democrats have a plan to reverse the fiscal damage inflicted on us by the Weakentroopers? Yes, a simple one:

Sen. Kent Conrad, D-N.D., the ranking Democrat on the Senate Budget Committee, this week introduced an amendment to return to Pay-Go. “There is an old-fashioned idea,” he said on the Senate floor: “Pay for it.”