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March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Washington was abuzz last week when former Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin turned down a personal appeal from President George W. Bush for help with a bipartisan commission to reduce entitlement costs.
In an interview with Bloomberg that aired March 4, Rubin urged Democrats not to play ball unless the whole budget, including the Bush tax cuts, was also on the table.
For Bush, reeling from the Dubai ports fiasco, being rebuffed by Rubin wasn't exactly what the doctor ordered. Conservative columnist Robert Novak took Bill Clinton's Treasury chief from 1995 to 1999 to task, accusing him of being ``intensely partisan.''
But on this one, Rubin is correct and Bush is wrong.
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