Spending bills, by law, originate in the House. Have you seen the spending bills lately?
Most assuredly not excellent.
A decade ago, Pubbies promised to eliminate the Depts of Education and Commerce (and I think Energy as well). Do we still have them? Why? And by golly, I do believe we have even more Cabinet departments than we did back then. That's probably not costing taxpayers less.
How about NEA and PBS? Weren't those supposed to be gone a long time ago? How're their budgets doing? Bigger? I'm shocked. Those should have been the easy ones.
And just last week, the Republicans were preparing to pass subsidies for private fertilizer research, the Rock 'n Roll Museum. Etc, etc.
Party of limited government, my ass.
>> Spending bills, by law, originate in the House. Have you seen the spending bills lately?<<
O my gosh, did you not learn anything about politics SINCE the 3rd grade?
In the real world, the Senate initiates its very own spending bills long before the House passes its. The two very independently crafted bills go to a joint committee of both houses. Where they then pretty much agree to the Senate version, because the Senate has the power of the filibuster.
The House has passed far better spending bills, even bucking President Bush's enormous give-away to geezers. But there is little they can do to force the Senate to pass better legislation, short of shutting the government down.
>> A decade ago, Pubbies promised to eliminate the Depts of Education and Commerce (and I think Energy as well). Do we still have them? Why? And by golly, I do believe we have even more Cabinet departments than we did back then. That's probably not costing taxpayers less.<<
Blame the President, then. Clinton and Bush have both opposed plans to eliminate the DoE, the DoC, the NEA and PBS. With a good president, we could probably get rid of three of those four. (PBS would simply get its revenue elsewhere.)
Your awareness of current events matches your astounding ignorance of politics.