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It seems perhaps that Congressman Pomeroy and Senator Conrad think we don’t notice the little details.

Earlier this week, Congressman Pomeroy stood up in front of Congress and the nation and threw a childish fit about the AIG bonus payments.  The Congressman seems to think that we here in North Dakota don’t pay attention to the little details.  Like the little detail of how he cast a vote approving the very bill that actually approved the payment of those bonuses. 

By casting his affirmative vote, he must have been in favor of the bonuses, right?  Or could it be that maybe he didn’t know that little detail was included in the bill?  But how could that be?  After all, he told us that he had read that bill “from cover to cover”.  So we’re left with only two conclusions.  Either he lied to us about reading the bill.  Or he knew that the bill allowed those payments but he thought that he could stand up in front of the cameras with his feigned indignation and we would never notice the little details.

Senator Conrad also appears to underestimate our ability to notice the little details.  One of the most willing accomplices in supporting every bailout and stimulus bill, his votes have helped introduce spending that will create budgets in excess of one trillion dollars per year for the next ten years.

Yet over the last few days, he has suddenly been posing as a “budget hawk” and preaching about the dangers of deficit spending and rising government debt. 

Again, we are left with only two conclusions.  He is really a big government liberal who could care less about deficits.  Or he, like Pomeroy, thinks that we will never notice the little details. 

Perhaps it is both Pomeroy and Conrad who fail to see the little detail that they have long ago forgotten the fiscally conservative values of their constituents here in North Dakota. They seem not to notice the little detail that ours is one of the few states that have a budget surplus and is in sound financial state. 

I bet they’ll notice the little details after their next ballot count comes up too short to send them back to Washington.