AP Tells The Truth About Dems

Hey folks,

Happy Monday to you. Looks like the AP is telling the truth about the "open and honest" Democrats. According to The AP-Democrats hide pet projects from voters By ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

After promising unprecedented openness regarding Congress' pork barrel practices, House Democrats are moving in the opposite direction as they draw up spending bills for the upcoming budget year.

Really?

Democrats are sidestepping rules approved their first day in power in January to clearly identify "earmarks" — lawmakers' requests for specific projects and contracts for their states.

Rather than including specific pet projects, grants and contracts in legislation as it is being written, Democrats are following an order by the House Appropriations Committee chairman to keep the bills free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics to effectively challenge them.

{Laughing hard} Read that again.

Rather than including specific pet projects, grants and contracts in legislation as it is being written, Democrats are following an order by the House Appropriations Committee chairman to keep the bills free of such earmarks until it is too late for critics to effectively challenge them.

Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., says those requests for dams, community grants and research contracts for favored universities or hospitals will be added to spending measures in the fall. That is when House and Senate negotiators assemble final bills.

Such requests total billions of dollars.

As a result, most lawmakers will not get a chance to oppose specific projects as wasteful or questionable when the spending bills for various agencies get their first votes in the full House in June.

Like millions on Peanut storage tucked into the Iraq War Spending Bill. You know, it’s like that. {Smile} This is just too good folks. They are not even trying to hide who they are anymore. They are operating out in the open and telling you what they are doing at the same time. You had better be paying attention.

The House-Senate compromise bills due for final action in September cannot be amended and are subject to only one hour of debate, precluding challenges to individual projects.

Obey insists he is reluctantly taking the step because Appropriations Committee members and staff have not had enough time to fully review the 36,000 earmark requests that have flooded the committee.

What Obey is doing runs counter to new rules that Democrats promised would make such spending decisions more open.

Of course it does. You mean they lied? Really? The LWL {Left Wing Looneys} lie? All they want is power folks. I keep telling you that your freedoms and the very way of life we have come to know is at stake here. They do not care about you, or what you think. They want to do whatever they want to do. If they do not feel they can explain it away, they want to hide it from you until it's too late to do anything about it.
Peter