Is This "Fair, Reasonable and Responsible?"

With the White House unveiling its 2006 budget this week, Vice President Cheney on Sunday said that "I think you'll find once people sit down and have a chance to look at the [President's 2006] budget that it is fair, reasonable, responsible, serious piece of effort" and that it is not "suddenly turning our back on the most needy people in our society." But compare Exhibit A and Exhibit B below and the story appears otherwise:

EXHIBIT A: Ignoring skyrocketing deficits, the Bush administration is trying to make permanent its previous tax cuts for the wealthy, at a cost of $2 trillion.

EXHIBIT B: Citing budget constraints, the Bush administration is proposing massive cuts to education, law enforcement and health care programs. The administration is even proposing to raise fees on veterans for their health care and limit services at veterans hospitals even as the NY Times reports "thousands of veterans are on waiting lists for medical services, and some reservists returning from Iraq say they have been unable to obtain the care they were promised."

Unless you are a totally out of touch and twisted human being, that doesn't seem "fair," "reasonable," or "responsible."