From the first time I saw Oklahoma senator Tom Coburn on TeeVee, I had him pegged as a pretty typical wingnut whacko, and on issues like Choice, oooh, baby baby he's the gift that keeps on giving. But in terms of fiscal discipline, he's a tiger. And right now he's going for two senior senators Lott and Cochran and their bag o'earmarks.
"It is ludicrous for the Senate to spend $700 million to destroy and relocate a rail line that is in perfect working order, particularly when it recently underwent a $250 million repair," said Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.), who is planning to challenge the funding when the $106.5 billion war spending bill reaches the Senate floor. "American taxpayers are generous and are happy to restore damaged property, but it is wrong for senators to turn this tragedy into a giveaway for economic developers."
Coburn may want to take a peek at his republican party card...where once there was a picture of Ronald Reagan guarding the Treasury (hah!) there's now a magnetic stripe, with an imprint "No more than $100 million in earmarks per member per year...see the Leader for additional funds".
The republicans have managed to turn the US Treasury into the biggest government contractor-special interest ATM in the history of civilization. Remember Ted Stevens throwing a menopausal hissy-fit over that bridge and other Alaska appropriations? Today's republicans view cutting off their money supply as worse than selling their children into slavery...a sad fact that will bankrupt this country faster than you can say "alleged fiscal conservatives".
Oh, wait. It's happening already? Silly me.
posted by Jo Fish on 04.18.06 at 04:43 PM
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Choice?! C'mon, Jo, why hide behind euphemisms? Why can't the pro-aborts simply say what they mean ... unless deep in their hearts they know there's something immoral about what they're proposing.
From the pen of the inimitable George Orwell:
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. . . . Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness. [This inflated style] itself is a kind of euphemism. A mass of words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.”
From "Politics and the English Language"
posted by: bean on 04.22.06 at 01:02 PM [permalink]
... oh, forgot to add, otherwise I agree with you 100% with only one minor point to add: the Dems are just as bad when they have control of committees. Just look at West Virginia ... ahem, I mean the Hon. Robert E. Byrd State Wedged In Between Pennsylvania and Virginia (TM).
posted by: bean on 04.22.06 at 01:05 PM [permalink]
