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To: defconw

Just getting here...what was Byrd pontificating about today??

BTW...Like the Wicked Witch of the West..Boxer is BACK!


25 posted on 02/02/2006 7:29:46 AM PST by Txsleuth (l drink tea, not kool-aid.)
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To: OXENinFLA; Bahbah; Mo1; defconw; ken5050

Babs is going on and on about President Bush's "apparent" misdeeds with Abramoff....

THEN, she starts talking about earmarks...saying that SHE doesn't need lobbyists because it is her job to know what her constituents need...BUT, that it is wrong for McCain to want to ban earmarks...(at this point, I am not understanding her)..

BUT, then....she says that YES, Senators do get $$$$ for projects in their states..for NECESSARY things like road repairs and such...

BUT, that "since the White House DIRECTS most of the money of the country,..."...she basically says that they are powerless to stop this...without more transparency about where the "White House" is spending money...

I know I am pretty ignorant about the whole way government works...but, I thought Congress directed where ALL the money in the federal coffers go...am I wrong?


28 posted on 02/02/2006 7:49:02 AM PST by Txsleuth (l drink tea, not kool-aid.)
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