His latest outrage - and we do mean outrage - as articulated in the San Francisco Chronicle:

Citing a national emergency that has existed since the 2001 terrorist attacks, President Bush said Wednesday he will cut the pay raises that most civilian federal employees were to receive in January.

In a letter to congressional leaders, Bush said he was using his authority to change the pay structure in times of "national emergency or serious economic conditions" to limit raises to 2 percent.

Federal employees covered by the government's general schedule pay system were to receive a 2.7 percent across-the-board boost of basic pay and also an increase based on private-sector wages in the areas where they work, called locality pay.

About 1.2 million of the 1.8 million civilian federal work force are under the general schedule system and would be affected by the change, according to the Office of Personnel Management.

Bush said granting those full raises would cost about $11 billion more than he had proposed in his budget.

Why don’t we have that $11 billion? Yes, we spent it on three months’ worth of fighting in a war his administration insisted on and falsely associated with the 9/11 terrorist attacks. But let’s not forget the revenue lost in that $330 billion tax cut - a tax cut that barely applies to same people whose pay raises he’s so quick to reduce.