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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
*Not counting Spanky. But face it -- his kind of R is an endangered species.
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This hypocritical jerk had the temerity to tell Condi that I wasn't a real Republican. This was written by a friend of mine about the jerk in question.
PRAISE FOR...NANCY PELOSI? YES!!!
I am a loyal Republican. My first loyalty is to my party's principles, though, not its officeholders. Foremost of those principles is the idea that government should be limited, and that personal freedom should be paramount. Lately, I feel like aliens came down and gobbled up some of my party leaders inside of the Beltway... What is UP with our seemingly voracious GOP appetite for spending in Congress?
With the tragic situation in Louisiana, there is no doubt that the federal government is be significantly involved, financially, in the recovery efforts. These billions of dollars can only be paid for one of three ways. Either raise the deficit ceiling (borrow the money), raise taxes (take the money) or prioritize this spending against existing budgeted expenditures. I am sure that you all agree that this third option is clearly the most common sense approach. If you aren't, then read this piece by Steve Moore from the Wall Street Journal:
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editor...?id=110007278. Well, in proof that the world is upside down, liberal Democrat Nancy Pelosi stepped up to the plate and suggested that the $70 million allotted to the San Francisco area in the latest Transportation Appropriations Bill, could be, instead, rerouted for recovery efforts. In response, Republican Tom Delay was less than stellar, suggesting that reprioritizing discretional spending was a good idea, but "not transportation money" (Delay's district is set to get $64.4 billion in transportation funds). The challenge has been thrown down -- if the GOP lets NANCY PELOSI get on the right side of this issue, it will be one more stake in the heart of any claim that the GOP is the party of fiscal sanity (already a dubious claim given the growth in spending in Washington). Someone explain this all to me?
