[Lady GOP]

This is more than the pork barrel. This is a coup for the constituencies of the party in power and against the idea of a responsible government itself.

A bleak day.

Unfortunately, it is only the latest in a long series of such days stretching across decades of rule by both parties, to the point where truly responsible government is only a distant echo of our forgotten ancestors.

Ben Stein is a writer, lawyer and actor. He lives in Los Angeles and wrote this for The American Spectator’s online service

[Cedric]

Not so fast.

This thing hasn’t been voted on yet.

They tried this “we have a deal” bluff back in Sept/Oct too, remember.