Green's kidding on spending, right?

Wausau Daily Herald:

Doyle challenger: Spending out of control

Gov. Jim Doyle's administration is guilty of fiscal mismanagement, leading to a 20 percent increase in spending in the past four years, Republican challenger Mark Green told reporters and editors from the Wausau Daily Herald on Monday.

Green, a four-term congressman from Green Bay, said state spending must be held closer to the rate of growth or the annual inflation rate, currently at 4.3 percent.

He vowed to stop overspending and to direct money to some programs, such as the University of Wisconsin System, that were cut previously...

As Cory Liebmann says at One Blog, he's got to be kidding, right?

In the state Assembly, Green voted for the Tommy Thompson budgets, with spending like there was no tomorrow, that created a $3.2-billion deficit, which Doyle inherited.

In Congress, Green's voted for Bush budgets that have taken the country from its largest surplus in history to its biggest deficit.

Did you notice that his plan to "stop overspending" is to give more money to UW? A worthy goal. But he still hasn't identified one dollar in specific cuts or savings, and the media continue to let him peddle his snake oil as though it might cure something.