Posted by
JayPeriod on Monday, December 03, 2007 4:30:44 PM
President Bush, during his speech this morning, questioned Congress' failure to get appropriation bills to him. He mentioned that now they would have to push through one large bill, that would most assuredly be filled with pork. As I thought about this, I'm not so sure this wasn't the plan to begin with.
This Congress took office on the claim that they were going to bring honesty and integrity back to the body. Yet, as we have seen so far, there are more earmarks in some of the pending appropriation bills than in many years. They have tried bringing these earmarks to the floor and make them undebatable, or tag them into bill that they have nothing to do with. The President has also had to veto important bills due to these earmarks.
The lesson learned, to me, is that they have no intention of cutting the pork. In fact, those in power now have been some of the largest abusers in government history. It seems, then, that this was a planned strategy, designed to push through unethical spending. Status quo.