[TomGuy]

those who give in

Sadly, most of the bills from Congress and signed by the President are pork-filled.

That was the outcry from many about the Prescription Drug bill -- it provided bukoo billions$ for the drug and insurance industries. Had the funds just been applied to a simple (similar to VA) drug plan, it would have ended up costing much less overall. Now, it is going to cost $Trillions over the next decade with the drug and insurance companies making obscene levels of profit.

Pubbies are very good to big business and self interest groups.

[luvie]

Yeah....but they learned it from the DIMS! They were doing it waaaaay before the Republicans came into power....they were just appealing to our feeeeellings, which was supposed to make it all better!

[OldFriend]

Unfortunately, the USSC ruled that the line item veto was unconstitutional.

It was passed and signed by X42 and immediately went to the Court.