More Politics
Well, well well, that whole ‘unified Republican’ thing is right out the window. The house speaker, not wanting to have house democrats vote with republicans in passing sweeping reform, decided to kill the bill instead over the weekend. Apparently some Republicans didn’t like the idea of the Pentagon losing control. Oops.
Let me repeat this: even though the bill had support on both sides, the speaker killed the measure becuase Republican supporters would need Democratic help. Well, if that’s not unification, I don’t know what is!
On the Sunday morning shows, all of the senators/reps on there were complaining that they had to vote on this 1,400 page bill in order to allow the US Government to continue spending. Everybody and their brother added crap to it, but rather than take a break and read it, everyone voted for the bill anyway. Pretty embarassing when you read it after the fact and find out you just approved a law to let “chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations committees, or their agents, to examine the tax returns of any American.” Non-mainstream blogs say that “Rep. Ernie Istook (R-OK) was the source of the offensive IRS snooping provisions”. Of course he was re-elected. Nice job family values people! I almost wish this would become a real law. That way everyone in Government can find what all those “reverends” and “churches” make that all voted for Bush. That would be fun!
Oh well, luckily cooler heads have prevailed and there’s no way this will become law. Nice to catch it after the fact. Maybe you also declared war on some other country in the bill as well. Thanks for reading the bills before voting on them. (And yes, EVERYONE is guilty, no matter the party line).