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- JumpingJack79, on 02/25/2009, -10/+62GOP's definition of "wasteful" in "wasteful spending": if spent for anyone other than myself or my party.
E.g. when Bush was president, no spending was ever labeled wasteful, because Bush was careful to spend the budget only for his friends and never for the general community. - freedomjoe, on 02/25/2009, -8/+38from a huff po comment:
To add a little activism to your day --
send an email to McConnell and Reid! Here's their Senate email contact info...
http://mcconnell.senate.gov/contact_form.cfm
http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
The Congressional Budget should have stayed the same (maybe) or even been cut! But an increase! They're happy to ask everyone in America to suck it up and muddle thru and work hard etc. -- but not them of course! - Bartboy919, on 02/26/2009, -9/+38Please, answer me this,
Why are Republicans Fiscally Conservative when it benefits their public image, but not so when it benefits them personaly?
ALSO,
Why are Republicans ***** Buckets? - inactive, on 02/25/2009, -10/+37So that they could sit around and do what, Harry? Focus solely on releasing GOP talking points all day long?
It seems the only ones Harry knows how to say 'no' to Democrats. - yourmjsty, on 02/25/2009, -2/+16Hits the nail on the head! Bravo!
- BotchaMcCoola, on 02/26/2009, -4/+17Oh so easy to spend and waste other people's' money.
- Zomgondo, on 02/26/2009, -2/+15Dugg for "***** buckets"
- serif69, on 02/26/2009, -3/+11Seems like more fingerpointing from both sides to me. "You made us spend more money!" "No, you made us spend more money!" Here's an idea: why don't you both shut the ***** up, take a pay cut, cut staff, and try not to spend over $4 billion on yourselves?
- Ghostalker, on 02/26/2009, -7/+14So much for their philosophy of "smaller government"
- TCBevolver, on 02/26/2009, -5/+12Isn't this the same Republican party that took meeting rooms and funds away from Democrats and such caucuses as the Congressional Black Caucus? Isn't this the same GOP that held meetings they didn't even tell the Dems about?
Examples: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990 ...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboa ...
http://www.yuricareport.com/Corruption/RogueRepubl ... - thecolor11, on 02/26/2009, -2/+9It wasn't the Democrats that lost seats; it was Republicans. That was the whole point of the article.
- yocouchdigga, on 02/26/2009, -6/+12un-*****-believable.
- VBDon, on 03/01/2009, -0/+5Typical Liberal Diggs. The headline says one thing and the article says just the opposite. The entire increase in spending is coming from the Democrat side. Since each member of the Senate gets the same amount to spend on his or her staff, it's the Democrats that are spending extra. I wonder how much of that will be kicked back to the Democratic Senator's own bank accounts.
- demicritter, on 02/28/2009, -0/+5***** Hairy Greed.
- mabs0, on 02/26/2009, -2/+7To explain: there are fewer republicans now than there were a year ago. They refused to fire any of their staff. Hence the headline.
- paintgrl, on 02/26/2009, -3/+7Hey, these Congress members had the original draft for over a week after they wrote it and voted on it the first time, and then had the Senates changes sent more then a day before, highlighted for them, before the release of the final bill all together at 11:30. It would be nice to have the time I agree, but it was not like they had never had a chance to read any of it or the changes, they wrote most of it, not that much was changed from the original.
- malex, on 02/26/2009, -3/+7Since the Republicans keep pulling off ***** like this, apparently not.
- Dustee, on 02/26/2009, -7/+11This isn't a surprise to Democrats. The Republicans are a party of spend (and spin), and let somebody else pick up the tab.
- treehugger87, on 02/26/2009, -7/+11I must just not be smart to understand this because there is no way this could be so completely unbelievable yet still be true. I'm dreaming, right? I sure hope the right wing Digg brigade gets here soon and explains it all. I'm sure then I'll understand.
- GeezerD, on 02/26/2009, -1/+4Congress is a White Caucus, Idiot.
- Wulfgang, on 02/26/2009, -1/+3On the heels of the $5k raise they just allowed themselves last quarter - apparently for doing such a bang-up job.
This is your ruling class. Enjoy your aristocracy America.
P.S. Seven-time convicted felon and former Alaska senator Ted Stevens will enjoy a $120k per/yr pension for life as well as the most excellent senate health plan.
Think about that while you're looking for work this year: a 7-time convicted felon will receive more money for doing nothing than many will make this year working their tails off.
Americans - there's almost nothing you won't bend over and let your government do to you.
You apparently haven't any fight left in you. Your founders would be ashamed. - reformcongress, on 07/20/2009, -0/+2It is really quite hilarious how many dishonest people there are on here. And then they accuse one party of another of the same. I've see some pretty stupid things, but this takes the cake. You who believe that the Democrats are not wasting money, YOU ARE BEING DISHONEST. The GOP has already been held accountable in elections. Time for the Democrats to be held accountable for much worse of the same thing.
- rwfuller, on 08/12/2009, -0/+2Can we finally get TERM LIMITS for members of congress???
- JenniferInMO, on 02/26/2009, -4/+6Exactly. It and all the amendments have always been available to the public since before the House introduced the bill. Boehner and his buddies had plenty of input, went to several meetings at the White house and all he could come up with was a lie that he didn't have enough time to read it? That is just bull *****? He had plenty of time and if he didn't read the amendments then he wasn't doing his job.
- yocouchdigga, on 02/26/2009, -2/+3worse than but doesn't even compare to a "cum guzzler".
- chickenloco, on 02/26/2009, -12/+13Republicans aren't the only ones wasting money. The $410 billion budget passed today had thousands of earmarks - by democrats and republicans.
- Synchro, on 02/26/2009, -4/+5Is "***** bucket" better or worse than a "cum dumpster"?
- inactive, on 02/26/2009, -0/+1- + - = -!
- JanSimpson, on 07/24/2009, -0/+1Why do you buy into the Ambulance Chasing Media - Liberal TV that is only telling about Libearl Causes - let's break this down - the house and senate ahve a majority Democratic votes - which means if they wanted to vote the healthcare plan in - they could tomorrow - but Americans are smarter than that - and we don't want it -so we sent a message - pass this crappy bill with pork and you will all be fired - got it?
- jnisme, on 02/26/2009, -1/+2The first comment on this story I've read that is worth a damn. I swear that the east coast needs a massive flood to clean all the crap out of DC.
None of these people have our best interest in mind. It's all powergrabbing. - Phylter, on 02/26/2009, -2/+3Oh MAN! SECONDED! Biggest laugh I had all day!
- JanSimpson, on 07/24/2009, -0/+1really- have you looked at who is in the majority?
- jwquinlan, on 10/03/2009, -0/+1Vote them all out and vote in bookkeepers and zookeepers and babysitters and landscape guys ... enough with professionals.
- Dustee, on 02/26/2009, -1/+2They have less people working this year then last you nitwit! Go talk to Palin, that idiot my know a little more then you.
- miwingman, on 02/26/2009, -3/+3This why I've never seen a tax cut that I didn't like. Giving these people in Congress (Dems and Republicans) money and expecting them to do good is insane. The less money the government has the better.
- ejeckert, on 02/26/2009, -0/+0Does this mean "their not gonna fall for the Banana in the tail pipe bit?"
- reformcongress, on 07/20/2009, -0/+0Actually, it was labeled wasteful by the people. The thing hasn't changed with the Democrats is that they are still wasting money. But they are wasting MORE OF IT!
- reformcongress, on 07/20/2009, -0/+0Conservatives are not hypocrites. Wasting money is not conservative. Liberals are hypocrites because they keep pointing to how the Republicans did it so it justifies the Democrats quadrupling the effort. Keep playing this game and you will not get anything fixed. YOU ARE A HYPOCRITE!
- fr3akystyley, on 02/26/2009, -5/+5Ah the good ol' "if I can't see you, you can't see me" tactic. Worked as an infant, works now.
- Alheithinn, on 02/26/2009, -1/+1Um...to you GOPers on this thread...isn't it the GOP that is talking about SMALL government? Dollars aside, and who spent what on what aside, isn't the GOP here guilty of hypocrisy for saying they want small government yet insisting on keeping staffing levels despite a drop of 20% in size? Don't talk about fiscal responsibility and then do something like this. If you want moral high ground, that's not how you're going to find it.
- clichecow, on 02/26/2009, -3/+4pulling what? this is another example of huffpo making a big deal from blind conjecture
- deema1, on 02/26/2009, -2/+1Another objective response from JenniferinMO. Yeah, why bother reading the final bill? It's only the largest spending bill ever. How dare these Republicans not go on blind faith from early drafts.
- alankem, on 02/26/2009, -20/+19***** THE GOP!
- ell0bo, on 02/26/2009, -5/+4***** both parties. I'm a Dem, and I did my best to get Obama in office, but god damn they're both pissing me the ***** off lately.
- LouiseCalabro, on 02/26/2009, -2/+1FTA: A Democratic leadership aide picks up on the notion that "Republicans aren't getting a dime more," noting that while they aren't getting more, they aren't getting less, either, even though they have far fewer members.
"This would be funny if it wasn't from someone associated with the the so-called party of fiscal responsibility," writes the aide. "This is the height of hypocrisy and utterly fails to acknowledge the fact that in the past, when the spread has been like it is now, the minority party gets far less money than what they eventually got. It was an unprecedented deal that is more outrageous when you realize that they will end up voting against the bill."
As Paul Krugman called them: "The Party of Beevis and Buthead"... - VoodooPunk, on 02/26/2009, -7/+5Despicable if true (it is HuffPo after all so it could just be manufactured fluff). I'm sick of Republican thieves as much as I'm sick of Democrat thieves. That being said, Democrats just pissed a trillion dollars down the drain. If you're a democrat and your complaining about this you're the very definition of a hypocrite.
- inactive, on 02/26/2009, -3/+1I believe you're describing liberal socialism
- chmstar, on 02/26/2009, -4/+2Especially if you are Charles Schumer, who claims we little people don't care about 'porky' spending.
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