That is the trouble with the GOP response to this president's final wish list. It is a politically dangerous dilemma.
Presidential budgets are always wish lists.
In bad times they are constructed to dampen fears of economic hardship. Mr. Clinton's budget promises that along with secure government retirement and medical funds, a cleaner environment, better health care, better education and elimination of the national debt. It might be a pipe dream, but it is so close to the American dream that blocking it without coming up with better ideas may be hazardous. More than anything, the Clinton budget proposal is a platform for the Democratic presidential nominee. It steals the Republicans' thunder of fiscal responsibility and wraps it around Democratic spending aimed at the middle class and working poor.