The Fierce Urgency of Pork

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Originally Posted by brianwspencer

No, he's not particularly measured singularly against Bush, but all the Congressional posturing from Republicans is nauseating considering that they had zero problem with running up all sorts of spending when it was Bush doing it, but all the sudden they have a problem with spending and want to return to fiscal conservatism.

It's transparent and nobody is falling for it. Republicans don't get to sit back and decide they care about reining in spending now, and talk a big talk, when they've spent the last eight years spending like mad people. Then again, having credibility in any argument at all hasn't exactly been their strong point since the turn of the century, so I shouldn't be all that surprised, really, that they still haven't managed to find any now.

Again you skirt the issue. You believe that this bill is a positive step? Do you think that the wasteful spending that it contains is going to be good economic stimulus? You think that the CONGRESS, which has been a unmitigated disater for years, has done us a good thing here? This isn't about Bush or Republicians. That is the liberal answer for everything. Deal with the issue.

And obviously somebody is falling for it Brian otherwise they wouldn't have knocked $120 billion off of the top already. Just because your party won doesn't mean that they are right.

And please enlighten me to where Bush ever suggested any legislation that approached the trillion dollar mark.