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March 16, 2006
Big Spending Republicans
This ain't your father's Republican Party folks. These former ideological warriors, who surged to Congressional power in 1994 waiving the bloody shirt for small government and an end to corruption in Washington, have become what they once despised. Having fed at the public trough for better than a decade now, today's GOP never met a pork project it didn't like, and the enormous rap sheet of scandals involving Congressional Republicans and Bush administration officials that has come to light in recent months, tells you all you need to know about what's become of their Contract With America pledge to "restore accountability to Congress and end its cycle of scandal and disgrace." What a pathetic joke.
Today's vote in the U.S. Senate is but the latest frontal assault on good government and the future financial well-being of America. In today's vote, the Senate decided to allow President Bush to borrow another $781 billion, just putting the tab on America's credit card.
Sure, we can fund wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, pass an enormous government giveaway to the insurance and pharmaceutical industries -- otherwise known as the Medicare Bill, pay out Social Security benefits, and keep cutting taxes for the wealthiest Americans. Those famously small government Republicans in charge have now raised the federal government's debt ceiling to $9 trillion, that's trillion with a "t".
The vote was close -- 52-48 -- and every single Democrat voted against it. The political reality as we once knew it in America has been turned on its head. Every Democrat voted to "pay as you go" and preserve some modicum of fiscal responsibility, while the GOP is content to spend and spend, the consequences be damned. When the next debt ceiling is reached, the government will owe $30,000 for every person in the United States, all 300 million of us.
So the next time you hear some Republican elected official crowing about big government liberals, just remind him that it is his party that is spending like drunken sailors and mortgaging the financial future of this great country. The hypocrisy is staggering.
Posted by houtopia at March 16, 2006 01:15 PM