Posted on 01/21/2007 6:47:40 AM PST by mecicon
THERE is no easy, painless way out of the fiscal chaos left behind by the outgoing Congress. In six years we have seen a $5 trillion surplus drained, and our government swamped in an ocean of red ink.
The outgoing congressional leadership ended 2006 without completing work on a single appropriations bill that invests in our communities, provides medical care for veterans, fights crime or works to make college more accessible.
Americans expect better leadership from the new Congress that just convened. They demand a return to fiscal responsibility, and better stewardship of the tax dollars of hardworking Americans.
As chairman of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, it is my responsibility to help provide leadership out of this fiscal mayhem.
Our first order of business will be to finish the appropriations process for 2007, while also preparing for the arrival of the president’s new budget in February and the massive supplemental funding requests expected for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at wvgazette.com ...
"Massive" summementals?
Say Bobby when you people spend $450 billion on handouts to mulit million dollar Farmers, the President asking for $90 billion to fight the War on Terror is not a "massive" bill
What surplus, Sheets? Our government has been awash in red ink for DECADES thanks to the likes of people of you!
Poster boy for term limits. I despise the arrogant, pompous tone he speaks in.
"In six years we have seen a $5 trillion surplus drained"
Man you just cannot believe a word these guys say. I can't even imagine the mental gymnastics Byrd went through to come up with this lie.
Is this from the Onion?
Is this incorrect and misleading statement indicative of how Senator Byrd gauges the mentality of his constituents in West Virginia?
Sen. Robert C. Byrd has to be run out in shame,
I don't know that he is guilty of any crime,
though remember, birds of a feather, flock together,
and whatever apology he gives for being KKK is not good enough,
if a felon cannot vote,
Sen. Robert C. Byrd should never vote in our Senate again.
This song should be played for all,
Billy Holiday sings "Strange fruit"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7y1UqZzvgkk&mode=related&search=
Dude, you can't alter the news titles. Just post it as it is. We all know that Byrd is KKK and a spendaholic.
The Duke of Pork.
I'm sure there's a quide pro quo lurking behind every/all "SHEET(s)" you hide behind.
"Is this incorrect and misleading statement indicative of how Senator Byrd gauges the mentality of his constituents in West Virginia?"
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Don't laugh. It works!
Unfortunately, the only candidate that can beat Sen Byrd, is Mr. Grim M. Reaper.
Though you may be right,
if the public was educated on what the Klan did while Sen. Robert C. Byrd was a member,
Sen. Robert C. Byrd would be run out today.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notable_Ku_Klux_Klan_members_in_national_politics
quote " Robert Byrd
Senator Robert Byrd Robert Byrd was a Kleagle, a Klan recruiter, in his 20s and 30s.
West Virginia's Democratic Senator Robert Byrd was a recruiter for the Klan while in his 20s and 30s, rising to the title of Kleagle and Exalted Cyclops of his local chapter.
After leaving the group, Byrd spoke in favor of the Klan during his early political career.
Though he claimed to have left the organization in 1943, Byrd wrote a letter in 1946 to the group's Imperial Wizard stating “The Klan is needed today as never before, and I am anxious to see its rebirth here in West Virginia.”
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Couple more links,
Byrd's KKK Alibi Comes Unraveled,
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/827607/posts
and
Sen. Byrd: The View From Darrell's Barbershop
By Colbert I. King
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=opinion/columns/kingcolbert&contentId=A26485-2002Mar1¬Found=true
Not that he had anything to do with the outgoing Congress, of course.
If anyone doubts Byrd's sincerity, just visit the state of Robert Byrd and see the few remaining remnants of West Virginia that he tried to take care of . . . . . at our expense.
Difficult to drain something that never materialized. There was no $5 trillion surplus.
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