Same crap, different faces
Politics can break your heart. You find a political ideology that fits you, you work to put them in office, and expect them to look out for your best interests. Before you know it, some of them turn into typical sleazy, lying politicians .. who ran on one position and then sold out once elected.
The integrity-impaired seem to be drawn to both political parties, thankfully .. so it must be just a human thang.
Not only am I disappointed that Democrats caved on Iraq withdrawal and gave Commander Guy a blank check for the war -- I have another beef about how Dems have resorted to the old standby of Pork handouts to pass a bill.
What happened to those promises to end the culture of corruption and give us the most ethical Congress in history? Where is fiscal responsibility? Maybe I just don't understand how things work in DC .. how cut-throat it is.
The Dems tried to attach a date for troop pullout from Iraq to the military funding bill but the idea was so unpopular they resorted to using Pork to gain votes.
That's using every tool in their kit, the same tools they criticized the Republicans for using. Good, old-fashioned pork. It doesn’t make much difference anymore which party is in the majority.
Look at what both parties are doing: The Senate’s Water Resources Development bill has 446 earmarks, the House version, 692. (An earmark is a line-item that is inserted into a bill to direct funds to a specific project or recipient without any public hearing or review).
We even have that ol' political horse trader, Rep. John Murtha (D. Pa.) charging across the House floor last week to confront Rep. Mike Rogers (R. Mich) because Rogers had the gall to try to strike a $23 million Murtha earmark for a drug intelligence center in Murtha’s southwestern Pennsylvania district.
It leaves a bad taste in my mouth .. but I like Murtha because he loudly champions the needs of our war vets. Of course, his people back home love him because he fights to bring business to his district.
Like I said, I love politics but I would fail as a politician.
The Republicans accused Murtha of violating a new ethics rule that prohibits lawmakers from swapping pork for votes. The Democrats voted to block the censure.
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