Newsweek has just published a in-depth look into some of the “anti-government spending” darlings of the right and how they actually love government spending, when it’s for them: House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, the Republican leadership’s tether to the Tea Party, flutters the hearts of the government-bashing, budget-slicing faithful with his relentless attacks on runaway […]
That’s what he said last night. Unfortunately for him it’s his own party that is balking at the idea: Even as Bush called on Congress to cut earmarks in half and announced an executive order cracking down on the projects, Republicans in Congress were sending out a mixed message about what their party really stands […]
In today’s radio address: To get the votes they needed to pass the bill, the Democrats who control the House also included billions of dollars in domestic and pork barrel spending for local congressional districts. This spending includes things like $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers, and a host of other […]
That is the headline of an AP article today. At first read you start to think “great – here we go again with pork barrel spending”. It sends a feeling of “bridges to nowhere” encompassing my body. But when you read the article, you find out that is not the case at all. While Democrats […]
Throughout Bush’s professional life, he has ran companies into the ground and relied upon others to bail him out. Well his new business, The United States of America, is no different. He now expects the Democrats to bail his ass out on his failed fiscal policies: When he takes the House rostrum next week for […]
Since the Iraq war started one thing has really gotten under my skin. That is the continuous assertion that we hate our troops because we oppose the war in Iraq. The fact that we want them home protecting their nation and not off in some far away land fighting an illegal war based on lies […]