Odd?  Usually the Bush people pull a Reagan and go out of their way to praise a program while cutting its budget but it appears that over the weekend we saw the reverse; the Energy Department had to come up with over $5 million over the weekend so that 32 workers and researchers laid off due to major budget cuts at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory could be on hand when President Bush made a visit to the facility to promote his new "end our addiction to oil" energy policy.  Excuse: Clearly a mix-up in budget priorities over at DOE?!? 

Makes you wonder what other projects will suddenly have to be saved due to poorly thought out policy proposals thrown into the State of the Union at the last minute for political reasons?