The more things change...
Looking at what the Democrat House has proposed, the sad truth is they aren't really different from what the former Majority holders had become; big spenders.
CDR Salamander posed the musical question: Can you build a fleet out of corn? when noting:
House Democratic leaders will add nearly $4 billion for farmers to a bill funding military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan to attract conservative Democrats concerned that the measure would wrongly constrict President Bush’s power as commander in chief.
...as if farming and military spending have any kind of relationship! $4 billion for farmers? I am a fan of farming, too, but this is nothing more but pork barrel spending, the kind of thing that Republicans thought they could bribe voters with. The kind of thing that Democrats promised to 'drain the swamp' of in their campaigns. Those same conservative Democrat members should realize the shell game Speaker Pelosi is playing.
As Captains Quarters points out (emphasis by me):
It's all the more egregious that House Democrats have hijacked a spending bill intended on supporting our troops in the field in order to bolster their own petty ambitions. They have done so not for any emergent need, but because the spending they want to pass will not stand on its own during a competitive budget process, and they know it. The Democrats had a chance to show that they could reform the budget system in the House, and instead they have demonstrated that they have more interested in making it cash out for themselves.
That's it exactly: they'll interrupt funding for the War on Terror by tying it to spending that would never pass in the Senate. Once again, instead of overtly defunding the war -- something their supporters claim to want -- they'll play games to covertly do so.
Sad Representatives, don't you think?
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