[Grovenet] Ugly Politics...

[Meredith Bliss]

Gee, Ron, you must have missed the whole debate over "earmarks" during the 
last session. Did you just tune in?

On Wednesday 28 February 2007 20:38, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Want to cite an example, or are you passing off personal wishes as fact?
>
> Ron D'Eau Claire
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com [mailto:grovenet-bounces at rdrop.com] On
> Behalf Of Meredith Bliss
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 7:33 PM
> To: Forest Grove local interests list
> Subject: Re: [Grovenet] Ugly Politics...
>
>
> Oh yeah? Under the R's, all of the spending would have been slipped into
> the
>
> bill the night before the vote and no one would know about it until months
> later.
>
> On Wednesday 28 February 2007 14:47, Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> > Democrat style:
> >
> > WASHINGTON - While Democrats try to restrict how President Bush can
> > spend the $100 billion he wants for Iraq, they also hope to load his
> > measure up with $10 billion in add-ons - from aid for avocado growers
> > to help for children lacking health insurance...
> >
> > Bush and GOP leaders on Capitol Hill managed to keep prior war funding
> > bills largely free of such budgetary add-ons when Republicans
> > controlled Congress. Now that Democrats are in charge, the party's
> > leaders are eager to use the cost of the war as leverage to force Bush
> > to accept spending - such as aid to farmers - that he has successfully
> > killed in the past.
> >
> > "It's starting to become a train onto which a lot of baggage is being
> > thrown that has got nothing to do with the war or really legitimate
> > emergencies," said Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H.
> >
> > Countered Obey: "We will only fund what is necessary."
> >
> > Whatever is added to the bill in the House is likely to grow in the
> > freer-spending Senate.
> >
> > Full story at:
> >http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070228/ap_on_go_co/iraq_add_ons;_ylt=Ap_No
> >QbKN
> >Q HJj7MsLPJLSRgb.3QA
> > Or
> > http://tinyurl.com/384uqy
> >
> > --------------------------------
> >
> > For six years the President and Republican supporters have made the
> > Democrats look good.
> >
> > Now the Democrats are in control in Congress and immediately start
> > making the President and the Republicans look good.
> >
> > Sigh...
> >
> > Ron D'Eau Claire
> >
> >
> >
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