December 30, 2005
RWR SLEW THE GREEN EYESHADE REPUBLICAN:
November Is Ten Months Away: Time for Bush to nationalize the midterm elections. (Larry Kudlow, 12/30/05, National Review)
Citizens Against Government Waste calls 2005 a record year for pork. The group identified 13,997 pork projects in the fiscal 2005 appropriations bills, costing taxpayers $27.3 billion, an increase of 31 percent over fiscal 2004. These are sickening facts. The president must work overtime to erase them in 2006 and truly produce a taxpayer protection budget.
A generally sensible piece except for this retrograde suggestion that the President waste any time or energy going to war over what amounts to something like 1% (?) of the federal budget. Posted by Orrin Judd at December 30, 2005 2:13 PM
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Yes, 1% is correct.
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at December 31, 2005 2:13 AM
The War in Iraq is the largest pork barrel project in the history of world. Go to war on that issue, conservative spenders.
Posted by: Grog at December 31, 2005 2:44 AMThe War in Iraq is capital spending, and well worth it.
The odds of America fighting another war with Saddam, whether in '03 under President Bush, or in '09 under President Clinton, were very high.
Fighting his forces now, while he was still weakened by a decade of sanctions, made the most sense, and in all probability saved lives and money.
at December 31, 2005 12:42 PM