Looking A Gift Horse In The Mouth Can Turn A Governor Into An Ass
Barack Obama announced plans Friday to send $1.5 billion to Pakistan every year for the next five years, to build schools and roads and hospitals. That’s $7.5 billion dollars. As far, as we know, the Pakistanis haven’t rejected the funding.
Compare that to [...]
After months of complaining about too few tax cuts for the rich, after weeks of claiming Obama’s budget ”spends too much, taxes too much and borrows too much,” after days of trying to blame Democrats and Obama for everything from the AIG bonuses to paling around with Jay Leno, the Republicans Thursday introduced their much-heralded budget.
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The current version of the 2009 Omnibus Spending Bill making its way through Congress as we speak is being attacked by the press, as well as many Democrats and Republicans. But not all. President Obama promised during his campaign to reduce the amount of earmarks to 10% of spending, but the current bill is loaded [...]