After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year. Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their first day in power in January to clearly identify "earmarks" - lawmakers' requests for specific projects and contracts for their states. What they're doing runs counter to new rules that Democrats promised would make such spending decisions more open. "We'll end this culture of corruption" my @ss.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070603/D8PHA8LG0.html
Of course they are. Did you actually think that the Democrats would do anything that was actually different? I don't see how America could have been dumb enough to elect such useless people to office... can't wait for 2010...
House Democrats selected a registered lobbyist to form their political action committee, in what ethics watchdogs and Republicans are calling a contradiction of their promise to end a “culture of corruption” in Washington. The custodian of the Democratic Freshmen PAC is William C. Oldaker, 65, whose most-recent lobbying clients include the oil industry, the tobacco lobby, pharmaceutical industries and American Indian gambling interests. http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070531-123651-8692r.htm
That wouldn't work, they'd just lie or wiggle their way out of it somehow. It would be best if we just shot them at the first sign of the dreaded disease "liberalism". That would also help the over population problem on the east and west coasts ....probably about half of the population in those areas would be shot before dark on the first day of the new law. A liberal is a person who wants to use your money to help those that he thinks needs help ....as long as he can keep all of HIS money intact. A liberal is a person who thinks that money just appears in the hands of government, thus needs to be spent quickly in order to empty their hands to catch some more money falling. A liberal is synonymous with "hippo-critter". It's impossible to be a liberal without being a hippo-critter. Baron Max
Sandy, you do realize, of course, that the Democrats are just behaving the same way Republicans have since 1994?
I'm getting fed up with all of them. I think Laura, Barney and I were the last HUGE W supporters. Now I'm ticked off at his support of the shamnesty policy.Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
My point, in mentioning the fact that the Republicans excelled at "earmarks" during their years in power, is to show how on some issues, there really is no difference between the parties and that neither side is really representing the taxpayer...
I agree with you. All US politicians suck. Neocons, liberals, Republicans, Democrats, Independents, religious, or atheist. All American politicians are stupid and corrupt. I'm glad we see eye to eye, Sandy!
Why do you limit it to only American politicians? If you follow the news of the world at all, then you should readily see that virtually all politicians are corrupt. Or is it because you're like the fanatical Muslims of the world ....you hate only Americans? Baron Max
I don't know if it's a matter of "stupidity". I tend to think it's more a matter of being uninformed, which is an altogether different beast. In my experiences being around politicians, they do things like this bill because they know the majority of the American people will never find out about it, no matter how loud the media crows. The rank and file just don't have the time or the inclination to follow the brutal day-to-day game of politics that closely...
And thus the institution of Democracy is fated to implode one day. Perhaps it's all the better that it does. ~String
Well, you know what Churchill said, Democracy is the worst form of government after all the others...
The Dems are in two groups: Beltway and new blood. The new blood has neither seniority nor a majority of the votes. The Beltway is spineless. They've been beat up so badly in the poisoned US political climate they don't know how to take a stand. The best of them, Wellstone, got killed in a plane crash, and Feingold is just one guy. Nevertheless, if the worst we can say about the Dems is that they haven't managed to roll back the thirteen year Republican trashing of sound governance they inherited, using their one or two vote nominal majority and no executive or judicial support, in less than six months, maybe they aren't doing so badly after all.
It doesn't matter whether or not the GOP conducted itself in whatever way. Liberals are supposed to conduct themselves better. At this point, we must wait and see what the final bills bring.
