Senate Approves Huge Spending Bill After Democrats' Delay

The New York Times ^ | January 22, 2004 | DAVID STOUT

[God is good]

Less spending toward conservative issues, you mean.

You're joking, right?

The reason Democrats spend so much is because they 'buy their votes'

Again, you're joking, right? The Republicans don't buy their votes, eh?

[God is good]

And more liberal, activist judges.

Is that what you want?

You do have a point there.

[God is good]

Using that logic, should regulation of prescription drugs be left to the states and the FDA abolished?

You say it like it's a bad thing.

[God is good]

Do you have a copy of his State of the Union speech?

My favorite is the "millions" for the "no child left behind" to make sure kids can read by middle school, and now the new millions for the new "program" to help the middle school and high school students that the "no child left behind" didn't help.

Maybe he's waiting for his advisers to tell him that public schools are a failure--always have been, always will.

[God is good]

Thankyou for your post #77.

[Orangedog]

Screwed out of overime pay? Since when is it the government's business to tell companies how much they have to pay their workers?

Since sometime around three generations ago. Changing the rules at this point is going to drive even more people in the party to stay at home on election day. This has to be one of the stupidest moves, politically, that the GOP has made lately.

[The_Eaglet]

"Take it or leave it," Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said angrily today in describing the Republicans' attitude. "This is one senator who's going to leave it because of what it will do to working families and women and veterans of this country."

Kennedy misses the point, as usual, but at least he didn't support the additonal spending (for the wrong reasons, of course).

[The_Eaglet]

Tom Delay and Roy Blunt have promised to let AW Ban "sunset." We'll know for sure, come September...

That is good news.

[Miles Vorkosigan]

Since when have Republicans been burned by gun control? If they had brains and balls, they'd push as hard on 2A issues as they did on capital punishment in the Eighties, and win big.

[The_Eaglet]

Please let me know when Bush signs in this pork. After his State of the Union speech where he boasted of unconstitutional spending proposals I don't expect a veto.