One final post tonight about the Bush fiscal 2009 budget: Where the hell was OMB Director Jim Nussle?

I can understand him not being on yesterday's Sunday talk shows.  Those producers probably didn't want the OMB director of the outgoing administration when they could get presidential candidates just before Super Tuesday.  And, in following the tradition set by the Bush administration, the White House almost certainly didn't want him to appear anyway.

OMB Director Jim Nussle announced today that the Bush fiscal 2009 budget, which will be submitted to Congress on February 4, will posted online and not provided in printed books to Congress, the media, and executive branch departments and agencies.  Here's the full Nussle statement.

Has anyone else noticed that new OMB Director Jim Nussle is no where to be found?

Think about this.  It's the last week of the fiscal year, no fiscal 2008 appropriations have yet been enacted, Congress has to pass an increase in the debt ceiling by next Monday, and Alan Greenspan has been everywhere the past week saying terrible things about the Bush budget and economic plan.

And Jim Nussle hasn't been seen or heard from.