Drilling Polar Bears, and Still Screwing the Poor
From the NYT
Sure. After spending us into an 8 trillion dollar deficit - not in any small part due to a certain unneccessary, unpopular and quite probably illegal war, these 'deficit hawks' are now crowing about their "fiscal responsibility." Give me a break.
For the record, the Senators that 'broke party ranks' are:
Gregg's voting record has almost always been in lockstep with Bush's desires..Despite his self described pride as being 'an independent voice' in Washington - he's a foot soldier for Bush. In NH, this is pretty common knowledge.
I think that all Senators' voting record should be front and center in 2006 and 2008.
How did your Senators vote? Roll Call has the goods.
I was going to post something earlier about my feelings regarding neo-liberal trade policies, as the Argentinians would most likely enjoy Bush tarred and feathered or worse, but it's such a vast complex topic, that I need to do some real work before making the case against liberalised trade.
The budget bill, the most ambitious effort to curb federal spending in eight years, was approved by a vote of 52 to 47. Five Republicans opposed the measure; two Democrats voted for it.
Senator Judd Gregg, Republican of New Hampshire, the chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, said, "This bill is a reflection of the Republican Congress's commitment to pursue a path of fiscal responsibility."
It will, Mr. Gregg said, reduce the deficit and save roughly $35 billion over the next five years.
Democrats said the savings would disappear and the deficit would increase if Republicans carried out their plan to cut taxes by $70 billion later this year.
The Senate Democratic leader, Harry Reid of Nevada, called the budget "an immoral document" that "harms vulnerable Americans to provide another round of large tax breaks for the elite of this country, special interests and multimillionaires."
Alan Greenspan, chairman of the Federal Reserve, told a Congressional committee on Thursday that lawmakers should not extend President Bush's tax cuts if they could not make up for the lost revenue.
Sure. After spending us into an 8 trillion dollar deficit - not in any small part due to a certain unneccessary, unpopular and quite probably illegal war, these 'deficit hawks' are now crowing about their "fiscal responsibility." Give me a break.
For the record, the Senators that 'broke party ranks' are:
The Republican senators who voted against the budget bill were Lincoln Chafee of Rhode Island, Norm Coleman of Minnesota, Susan Collins of Maine, Mike DeWine of Ohio, and Olympia J. Snowe of Maine. The Democrats voting for the bill were Mary L. Landrieu of Louisiana and Ben Nelson of Nebraska.
Gregg's voting record has almost always been in lockstep with Bush's desires..Despite his self described pride as being 'an independent voice' in Washington - he's a foot soldier for Bush. In NH, this is pretty common knowledge.
I think that all Senators' voting record should be front and center in 2006 and 2008.
How did your Senators vote? Roll Call has the goods.
I was going to post something earlier about my feelings regarding neo-liberal trade policies, as the Argentinians would most likely enjoy Bush tarred and feathered or worse, but it's such a vast complex topic, that I need to do some real work before making the case against liberalised trade.
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