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Monday, November 27, 2006


GOP Leaving Congress With A “Clutter” Of Spending Bills

As bad as Republicans have been, this rather shallow effort by the media to imply that Democrats will be cleaning up Republican fiscal irresponsibility is just laughable.

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The first line of the article is knee-slappingly hilarious:

WASHINGTON - Republicans vacating the Capitol are dumping a big spring cleaning job on Democrats moving in. GOP leaders have opted to leave behind almost a half-trillion-dollar clutter of unfinished spending bills.

The Democrats are going to come in and “spring clean” all this nasty Republican spending?  That’s not exactly accurate, if history is our guide.

Let’s take a look at a graphical representation of proposed spending from the last couple of years:

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Contrary to what some would have you believe, while we can expect a lot of things from a Democrat-controlled Congress fiscal responsibility isn’t one of them.

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