Keith D. Milby :: blog

If they are not willing to give them up, they do not and should not regain the majority in Congress.

Source: David Freddoso

Fred Thompson ‘08

Good for him.

Now of course the morons on the other side will try and make the case that this veto is all political. But, that is the case for them. Bush is simply making a statement with this veto of Congress’ pork barrel spending.

Source:  Bush vetoes health and education bill

Congress overrode the veto on the Water Resources Development Act that Bush vetoed because of all of the pork in the bill.

As clearly put forth here by Council for Citizens Against Government Waste:

The spending levels in H.R. 1495 are excessive. The final conference report of $23 billion was far more than the $14 billion and $15 billion price tags the Senate and House recommended in each of their respective bills and $18.1 billion more than the president requested. The final bill includes several pork projects that are outside of the mission of the Corps of Engineers, transfers billions of dollars in costs from non-federal projects to taxpayers, and adds to the backlog of projects already in the pipeline.

The conference report also contained numerous pork-barrel projects which were “air-dropped” in at the last minute, well after the House and Senate had voted on their respective versions. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) attempted to challenge $2 billion worth of earmarks that were added in conference, but was rebuffed because Majority Leader Harry Reid’s (D-Nev.) interpretation of the new transparency and accountability rules permits senators to add pork with impunity to authorization bills such as WRDA.

In the source article for this post, nothing is mentioned as to why Bush vetoed the bill in the first place. But hey, no surprise about that.

Just remember, even though it may be a day late and a dollar short, Bush did try and get the fools in Congress to change it. But, sometimes I guess the smell of pork is too overwhelming.

Source: Congress Hands Bush First Veto Override

Well it appears the President Bush is going to spend his last months in office, vetoing his his ass off.

In the words of Martha Stewart, It’s a good thing.

It started out on the House side at 14 billion and on the Senate side at 15 billion. After it made it out of committee it was 23 billion dollars.

Simply amazing.

Source: Vetoing The Flood Of Pork

Freshman Congress Folks are the best Congressional Folks. With the exception of having absolutely no power to get anything done. That is because all of the Senior Congressional Folks hold power over everything that is need to get anything done. That is all fine and well except when it comes to these Senior Congressional Folks becoming so drunk on power and corrupt to the point of criminality. Thinking that their sway over budgets funded with taxes forced to be paid by the citizens by the rule of law, that they use these budgets as their own personal piggy bank.

Then comes the promises by these Congressional Folks every two years that they are going to be the ones to clean it up. That never happens. They rarely ever get booted out of office by the voter. Only when the corruption gets to the point that the justice department is forced to do something. That usually only ever comes when no one in Congress has the nerve to stop it, because it is so bad that every member of Congress does their best to deny they ever new the member.

So who do we have to blame for all of this. Only ourselves.

Thanks to our federal and state constitutions, we have the ultimate authority and blame for this corruption. So to make it clear, it is us that are corrupt. For it is our Congressional Leaders that we send to Houses of Congress to do our bidding and to be our proxy.

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