Via OneGoodMove and Fletch:
There's more, after the jump...
This is all stuff I culled from last year's post-katrina posts:
The president is using our first responders as props?
This image is going to end up, like the "mission accomplished" photo, as a symbol of the crassness of this administration, which politicizes everything and, apparently, feels nothing.
This is mind-boggling.
For years now, this Congress has presided over the the most bloated government in our history. They have signed off on an expensive, immoral, unjustified war, they have supported Bush's plans to empty out the treasury in the form of tax cuts for the richest Americans and corporate welfare, they (as ever and always) wallow in pork. But this Conrgress has finally reached the point of saturation. "No more," they say. "We have to get this budget under control!"
What finally tipped the scales and made these legendary budget bloaters talk about putting the brakes on spending? Was it the $223 million Bridge to Nowhere? Nah. Was it the current plans to heap still more tax relief on the richest Americans? Nope. Was it yet another hidden supplemental spending request for the Iraq War? Nada.
What's finally got Congress fretting about "unbridled spending" is talk of helping our own. Helping the poorest among us rebuild their lives and bringing back a unique cultural center and port city.
Every single member of Congress should be ashamed -- either because they have been voting all along for our government's bloated spending, or for their failure to lead in the face of such irresponsible stewardship. And now, when Americans really need help, the American people are going to say we can't afford it?
I don't think so.
Rep. Don Young can live without his pork, Halliburton can survive without yet another overpriced, no-bid contract, and America can show some contrition for the mess we've created in Iraq and find the necessary diplomatic skills to get our allies to help us out over there.
Anything less is not enough. If this Congress can't handle the job, then in 2006 we'll just have to find ourselves a Congress that can.
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