The Fierce Urgency of Pork

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by GBBob

Everyone on the right wants change until they realize it's change from Bush and maybe not change from Clinton...

Clinton never pillaged like this. Obama is the one who used the word. Some are just holding him to it. Doesnt seem like much change yet. Lots of politicians are not paying taxes (which explains the desire to raise them for the rest of us), Democrats are determined to outspend Bush, attempting media censorship, throwing more wasted money at social programs that simply do not work, etc...

[GBBob]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Clinton never pillaged like this. Obama is the one who used the word. Some are just holding him to it. Doesnt seem like much change yet. Lots of politicians are not paying taxes (which explains the desire to raise them for the rest of us), Democrats are determined to outspend Bush, attempting media censorship, throwing more wasted money at social programs that simply do not work, etc...

Democrats are determined to outspend Bush,

That...will be hard to do

throwing more wasted money at social programs

To each his own...A liberal was elected and these are liberal based initiaves. Should not be a surprise to anyone. When Bush was elected, I knew that Enron, etc was the price for losing. Now the NEA gets funded and I'm glad it is

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by GBBob

Democrats are determined to outspend Bush,

That...will be hard to do

throwing more wasted money at social programs

To each his own...A liberal was elected and these are liberal based initiaves. Should not be a surprise to anyone. When Bush was elected, I knew that Enron, etc was the price for losing. Now the NEA gets funded and I'm glad it is

NEA is the like .00005% of the issue. No one is complaining about funding arts. It is the other 899 billion that trouble us.

And being liberal based initiaves doesn't make them good or responsible when packaged as a "stimlus" package.

Again what happened to change and moderation and transparency? He said it, not the wacko, neo-con right.

[AeWingnut]

Originally Posted by Cannon Shell

Clinton never pillaged like this. Obama is the one who used the word. Some are just holding him to it. Doesnt seem like much change yet. Lots of politicians are not paying taxes (which explains the desire to raise them for the rest of us), Democrats are determined to outspend Bush, attempting media censorship, throwing more wasted money at social programs that simply do not work, etc...

Dems don't care how high taxes are
they don't pay them

in order to fund this package Obama is going to nominate all fo the and they will pay their taxes and all our problems will be solved.

again I ask

so tell me why they have to take my money and give it to someone else so they can stimulate the economy?

why not just let me keep it and spend it myself.

he's just stealing from everyone and giving it to? gerbil worming experts?

[Cannon Shell]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123380033980550585.html

Found in the right leaning WSJ

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by DaHoss9698

"Doesn't seem like much change yet"

He's been in office for less than 3 weeks. Isn't it a bit premature for this kind of talk, especially with the state of the economy? I mean how much change did you guys on the right expect within his first 21 days? If after a year or so and things are the same way, it would make sense to criticize him for his lack of change. But come on, can he have at few months in office first?

His first swing at leadership is the biggest joke of a spending bill ever attempted. Please spare me the three weeks stuff. A popular incoming President with huge majorities in Congress coming to power with a huge economic issue staring at him and his first order of business is to throw the old guard a trillion dollar bone? Does this not trouble you if you believed in the rhetoric of his campaign? We have nothing else to judge him by. If this was a solid piece of legislation then there wouldn't really be any debate. But it isnt and the reason is that he let it be crafted by the radicals of the party. In a country in with the economic troubles we are facing, it should be relatively simple to craft and get passed an economic stimulus bill that all the people in the country can get behind. He has failed at doing that. What he has done is allowed the far left to take a $900 billion dollar victory lap. That is hard to stomach had we been swimming in money. It is not a good sign.