Friday, February 20, 2009

"Change We Can Believe In" Part II

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Only three Republicans lacked the spine to stand up against this mostly liberal spending spree, but maybe those three think a "group hug" is more important than staying true to the fiscal roots that made this nation great. Or maybe they just needed affirmation from the likes of Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) who you heard in the clip say on the Senate floor.

“Let me say this, to all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little tiny, yes, porky amendments — the American people really don’t care.”

Maybe Schumer's right. Maybe people are so "lost" that they need a trail of pork and beans to help them find their way out of the woods. Let's hope leaving a trail for scavengers works better for us than it did Hansel and Gretle.

Or maybe Schumer is just hoping to leave someone else the bill for all the pork like the Democratic National Committee has done thus far with the $1.74 million cost of President Obama's victory celebration in Grant Park last November.

Meanwhile back at the ranch--I mean--White House...



President Obama's second nominee for Secretary of Commerce, Sen. Gregg withdrew, citing "irreconcilable differences" over the stimulus package, but as this article points out:

"The more important reason was because the president had made it clear Sen. Gregg was just to be window dressing. The Commerce secretary has only one important job, to oversee the decennial census. If illegal aliens are counted as citizens, several House seats could be shifted from the Republicans to the Democrats after the next reapportionment. Cheating is the Chicago Way, but Sen. Gregg is both honest and a Republican. He couldn't be counted on to cheat. So the president announced oversight of the census would be shifted to the White House. This is probably illegal, and it made Sen. Gregg look like a chump. So he did the only thing an honorable man could do.

"With so many of the president's nominees having to withdraw because of ethical problems, it was refreshing to have one withdraw because he had ethics.”

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2 comments:

SweetPeaSurry said...

Amen to Gregg for upholding his values and ethics. I'm voting for an impeachment of the entire freaking government. They're mostly all a bunch of crooks!

Why aren't they listening to their constituants?

patronus incognitus said...

I wish I could say that the last time things were like this (1992) and the Republicans followed with a big mid-term election in 1994, that we had no examples of the same kind of "getting too big for our britches" that's going on right now, but it seems both sides are capable of messing up when they have too much power. The problem is the Dems don't feel compelled to meet any kind of "burden of proof" before foisting bad plans on the public.

But I must say, I was impressed with Gregg "sticking to his guns" and yet he tried to be "classy" about it. He could have said all kinds of things but "irreconcilable differences" seems to cover it graciously.

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