THE VIEW AT T-1
No one really knows what "small government" means anyway, other than a menu item on the ideological carpet bag of the day.
Just remember, next year, when the self-praising small-government conservatives start in about tax day 2008, that not a one of them peeped on Appropriation Day 2007 ...No one really knows what "small government" means anyway, other than a menu item on the ideological carpet bag of the day.
Senate to Vote on GOP Amendments Before Expected Passage of Spending Bill
The monument that we are building for naught in the Southwest deserts:
Republican [amendments] ... would add $3 billion to the bill for border security initiatives. ... 23,000 Border Patrol agents, 300 miles of vehicle barriers, 105 ground-based radar cameras
All that is in addition to the huge spending amount in the 109th Congress, after comprehensive reform failed, when the GOP had both houses and the White House.
Did the GOP boosters just get the estimates wrong 12 months ago? Or, does some Senator need to play to xenophobia in his state for re-election purposes - you make the call. Pork for Texas? I dunno, but ...
