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Diane Sawyer of ABC News once asked President Bush about the absence of Iraqi WMD:

SAWYER: But stated as a hard fact, that there were weapons of mass destruction, as opposed to the possibility that he could move to acquire those weapons still –

President Bush famously answered:

So wha'’s the difference?

Conrad Burns of Montana has decided to take the same approach to the campaign contribution he received at the behest of Jack Abramoff. The New York Times reports:

In an interview, Mr. Burns, a former agricultural auctioneer and broadcaster, dismissed as irrelevant the relative size of the campaign contributions he had received from Mr. Abramoff and his associates, saying some Democrats had taken money from the same sources.

"What's the difference between one dollar and one thousand? Its all dollars," Mr. Burns said.

Now, of course, we know why the budget deficit is so large. A billion dollars, four hundred billion dollars, what's the difference? It's all dollars?