Posted by
Sgt Relic on Sunday, March 16, 2008 7:49:28 AM
7 out of 10 Senators surveyed in a recent poll, sometimes called a vote, say they favor Pork as the main staple on the Senatorial diet. In a clearly bi-partisan effort, reaffirming this Washington institutions commitment to stuffing billions of taxpayer dollars into satisfying the special interests that make their reelections possible; The Greatest Deliberative Body in the United States boldly flipped off the citizens who threw them out of office in wholesale lots just 2 years ago. Could it be that they didn’t really “get it” as they have been saying ever since the ’06 midterms?
On a related note, all three presidential candidates took time off from their campaigns to be present for this critical vote on a one-year moratorium on Pork Spending. The candidates all voted in favor of taking a year off from the usual gorging at the public trough. The vote defeating this issue was 71-29 handing the prospective candidates what would be considered their first legislative defeat if they were President. This demonstration of the raw power of these candidates to influence Congress is at best underwhelming.
My two Virginia Senators, “Boss Hog” Warner (R) and “Piglet” Webb (D), in a not so rare show of democratic unity, voted to keep their places at the trough and continue to bring home the bacon. With this federal largess flowing into the state could someone please explain to me why taxes in the state are still increasing at an unprecedented pace? Virginia has now busted into the prestigious top 20 list of high tax states. Kudos Senators! The pork seems to be helping a lot.
Although I am sure that Obama and Hillary were casting votes designed to prevent debate, in the full knowledge that the bill would be defeated. The real loser here is John McCain who is actually running as an earmark reformer. When you can’t even get Warner, a member in good standing of the Gang of 14, to vote with you on a key campaign issue then you’ve got real problems.