It has been this way for so long that few will accept the reality until it slams them in the face more than once. Truly sad even if predictable. The social engineers count on the predictability.
Posted on 03/04/2009 3:09:02 PM PST by reaganaut1
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Senate Democratic leaders are working hard to suppress dissent within their party over boosting agency spending by 8 percent as the government runs whopping deficits and constituents are forced to scrimp on their own budgets.
Coming to the rescue are a few Republicans standing ready to help pass the pending $410 billion catchall spending bill -- and allow lawmakers in both parties to get the thousands of pet projects they crave and above-inflation budget increases for favorite programs like education.
A close vote is expected late this week to advance the sweeping spending bill, which wraps together the budgets for 12 Cabinet departments and other agencies, to President Barack Obama. The White House promises to sign it despite unhappiness over the 8,000 or so homestate pet projects it contains. [Sixty votes are needed to overcome a filibuster.]
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Most significantly, Democrats Evan Bayh of Indiana and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin announced Wednesday that they will vote against the bill. Both urged Obama to veto it.
''There's just a disconnect between what people are having to go through in their daily lives -- tightening their belts, economizing where they can -- and what they see the government is doing,'' Bayh said in an interview. ''I just think it's tone deaf and, substantively, we do need to get the deficit under control.''
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Sens. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., the Appropriations Committee's top Republican, and Richard Shelby, R-Miss., are the only Republicans so far to publicly announce support for the bill. But several other Republicans have said they may support it, including Roger Wicker of Mississippi and Lamar Alexander of Tennessee.
Democratic leaders are also hopeful of attracting the votes of Sens. Kit Bond, R-Mo., and Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
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“Why the heck do as many as 6 Senate Republicans support a spending increase of 8% when the projected deficits are already huge?”
Simple. They are getting something out of it.
I don’t think Bond cares does he? He is not running next cycle. Or so I have heard at any rate. Murkowski, well, it’s Murkowski, not surprised.
“Sens. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., the Appropriations Committee’s top Republican, and Richard Shelby, R-Miss.”
This is a Republican. MS freepers you need to get busy.
Has he gone schizophrenic?
I bet there is a direct relationship between the Republicans that support this crap and the amount of PORK they have in the bill.
See how the corrupt "Two-Party Cartel" works. This is how they ALWAYS work the system to their elites & against YOU & ME. They ALL are whores.
Dobbs: Obama setting up New World Order http://www.infowars.com/dobbs-obama-setting-up-the-new-world-order/
At any rate all Freepers in those states should get busy.
Come to think of it, I might want to send Lugar one as well.: )
“I bet there is a direct relationship between the Republicans that support this crap and the amount of PORK they have in the bill.”
And the pork in turn is intended to get campaign contributions and votes, which it does. It is the system; the system which just recently the GOP was using for all it was worth.
Stevens bridge, for example. I recall him giving a speech almost in (faked) tears, to his Senate colleagues, begging them to support him and his pork, just as he had theirs.
Show me the Senators and the Reps. which have no earmarks and no pork. Short list.
There used to be various sayings about politics. Like you don’t want to watch them make sausage.
These people are sausage makers, not saints.
A lot of posters on this site are searching for 100% perfect humans to be their politicians, passing every litmus test and then some more. Perfect religion, perfect voting record, perfect family, erfect life history, ad infinitum.
But they are sausage makers.
These people are totally irresponsible. Too bad they can’t be recalled. I do not trust Congress, and am unlikely to trust it ever again.
Can the sausage making. They are being completely irresponsible. They don’t deserve our respect.
It has been this way for so long that few will accept the reality until it slams them in the face more than once. Truly sad even if predictable. The social engineers count on the predictability.
a legacy of Bush/Hastert/DeLay compassionate conservatism
“Show me the Senators and the Reps. which have no earmarks and no pork. Short list.”
John McCain. He was our nominee, remember?
One of these things is not like the other, one of these things is not like the other.
John McCain. He was our nominee, remember?
I voted for him, and I respect him for his integrity on this topic. I don't see hm in the future leadership of whatever the conservative movement is.
What a freaking useless bunch. I don’t even know what to say anymore.
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