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 (One of the most powerful insiders in the administration,) Bolten also said Medicare actuaries at the Health and Human Services Department "had different estimates all along" from those of the Congressional Budget Office about the cost of the Medicare prescription drug bill signed last year, but they had not "completed their estimate until well after" the bill was signed. The budget predicts the legislation will cost $534 billion over 10 years, far more than the $400 billion lawmakers assumed they were approving based on estimates by CBO.

I realize that Josh Bolten has been lurking around the West Wing for the first few years of Bush Deux, where his duties ran towards secretly developing the Office of Homeland Security, intervening with the Treasury Department for Enron, and figuring out how to sell steel tariffs.

The most powerful guy you never heard of - Off The News - Josh Bolten

This means he is a perfect fit for the Rove political machine -- but perhaps not such a great fit for the rest of the country who deserve to actually have an office of budget and management, not an office of Enron accounting to make our economy "appear healthy." Secrecy has no place when he is handling OUR money.

G. W. Bush, along with his Daddy and Ronald Reagan have enjoyed the services of their "own personal law firm": O'Melveney and Myers. The controller of the US budget, Joshua Bolten, was drawn from the O'&M pool.

Asked at a February press briefing if some of these premises aren't a bit questionable, Bush's budget director, Josh Bolten, feigned befuddlement. "The question confuses me," Bolten told reporters. "The budget we're presenting today is one that is, from my perspective, completely honest."