The Wall Street Journal is unhappy today

[fencesitter]

Farm bill? Huh?



Speaker Nancy Pelosi has demonstrated she can pile on enough pork to bribe enough Democrats to cobble together a bare, partisan majority to "send a message" that has no chance of becoming law. Congratulations.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110009828

To get her narrow majority of 218 votes, Ms. Pelosi and Appropriations Chairman David Obey had to load it up like a farm bill: $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers, $283 million for dairy farmers--all told, some $20 billion in vote-buying earmarks of the kind Democrats campaigned against last year.

[Deja Q]

1. Peanuts and spinach. Milk and dairy products are healthy too. Yum!

[joanski0]

2. As David Obey and Jack Murtha explained,

that was the leftover work that the Republicans didn't finish. They just wanted to get it out of the way. But did the Wall Street Journal point out that what was also in that bill was "No permanent bases in Iraq". "No torture in Iraq". I heard Murtha say this on the House Floor yesterday.

[ClintonTyree]

3. I don't see any "bridges to nowhere" on the list.....

They must be doing something right. ;)

[Demeter]

4. May The WSJ and Its Supporters Be Unhappy Every Day This Century

because they've made us unhappy for the last one.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. I concur. The Wall Street Urinal's editorial board

should rot in hell.

[krispos42]

6. If the fiscally-responsible Republicans....

:rofl:

*cough cough* *ahem*

If those fiscally-responsible Republica-

:rofl:

*cough* *snort* *ahem*

Sorry. *giggle*

If those Republicans wanted a pork-free bill, they should have passed one before the start of Fiscal Year 2007, i.e. September 30th, 2006!

Assholes.

[ProudDad]

7. When the WSJ is unhappy

I'm ecstatic!


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