You give him too much credit.
If anybody give you ANY credit, they are beyond stupid, Simpleholic.
Notice how Sallow offers a pithy one liner but fails to even attempt to provide support (much less a link).
As bad as he is at that kind of thing, he still has you beat a million to one.
It was a bullshit political move by the President anyway. What he wanted to do was to make it appear that the cost of fighting wars is a part of the normal budgetary "process." In fact, of course, such budgeting had normally been put into a supplemental bill NOT (as he falsely maintained) to hide the true costs of the war, but to properly reflect the fact that such costs are not part of the normal budgetary process. Nobody thereby was hiding or even attempting to hide the cost of the war. That was just President Obama being a sanctimonious asshat liar. Ho hum.
If the normal budget was X and the Supplemental War budget was Y, then every ******* person in the universe knew the total budget was X+Y. ****. One would have to be as stupid as Simpleholic NOT to see that.