An Ol' Broad's Ramblings
Out Of Control
The people in Washington, D.C., our so called elected officials, spend money like there’s no tomorrow. Putting aside the horror they call ‘health care reform’ for a minute, what else are the weasels up to? Well, I guess I thought, perhaps, at least the Republicans were getting the message on spending. Not so.
The aide noted that McConnell appointed an internal task force in 2008 to come up with recommendations regarding earmarks, but little was done to implement its recommendations.
GOP Conference Chairman Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), who also sits on the Appropriations panel, was the only member of GOP leadership to vote against the DeMint amendment Tuesday, but he did support a similar effort in 2008.
“I supported it before because I thought we needed some reforms, and we’ve taken some reforms,” Alexander said of the increased transparency of earmark requests.
Alexander continued: “If you have a couple of bad acts at the Grand Ole Opry, you don’t cancel the Opry. You cancel the bad acts, and what we need to do is make sure is that if we have reforms that need to be had or abuses that need to be stopped, that we do that. And we’ve taken some steps to do that.”
Excuse me? To quote Everett Dirksen: “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.” And to think, my opinion of Alexander was starting to improve, some what. Welp, he’s managed to slide back into the ‘feckless weasel” category! When are they going to remember….IT’S NOT THEIR MONEY?!
