https://freerepublic.com/tag/punishingrinos/ en-us Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:27:20 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200322/posts Forget the pork. Forget the waste. Forget the 8,570 earmarks in a bill supported by a president who poses as the scourge of earmarks. Forget the "$2 trillion dollars in savings" that "we have already identified," $1.6 trillion of which President Obama's budget director later admits is the "savings" of not continuing the surge in Iraq until 2019 — 11 years after George Bush ended it, and eight years after even Bush would have had us out of Iraq completely. Forget all of this. This is run-of-the-mill budget trickery. True, Obama's tricks come festooned with strings of zeros tacked onto... IBD Editorials https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2200322/posts#comment Fri, 6 Mar 2009 02:27:20 GMT