Smelling a RAT

Hot Air ^ | 2/19/09 | Ed Morrissey

[FromLori]

Byron York smells a RAT. Charles Grassley smelled a RAT right before the Senate vote on Porkulus, but couldn’t get his statement to the floor on time. You’ll smell a rat, too, when you’re done reading this post, and it won’t just be the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board, either:

[GOP Poet]

The whole thing reeks to high heaven.

[rockinqsranch]

and nobody knows yet who put this in the bill?

[NVDave]

It was probably added in the late-night conference.

This is a time-honored tactic of Reid, especially around land-use bills in the west. Reid is the master of inserting stuff in conference.

[chit*chat]

ping for later . .

[rockinqsranch]

My thoughts are we must find out for certain. Seems that information could be usefull in the future with respect towards opposing Mr. Reids reelection.

[jessduntno]

yikes

[BirdFLU]

So what is RAT an acronym for? Searching on it yields hundreds of returns so I have to ask.

[smokingfrog]

Republicans Are Toast

[JSteff]

“So what is RAT an acronym for?”

uhmmm, did you read even a FEW sentences on the linked site? That is usually the best thing to do when visiting a site like FR.

[Eva]

It just keeps getting worse and worse.

[syriacus]

It took

100 hours for
100 Democrat monkeys
to assemble and vote for a stimulus package
which they constructed from rejected projects
that had languished in their dusty file drawers.

Let's hope the Democrats weren't in such a great hurry that they got a lot of paper cuts.

[FromLori]

Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board — the RAT Board, as it’s known by the few insiders who are aware of it.

[JSteff]

Yeah, sort of hard to believe they would even have a name that could be turned into an acronym so appropriate.