I missed this Fox Article about Repub spending. Borrow & Spend Republicans

[demgurl]

I must have missed this way back when but I wanted to share this with all of you.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,166682,00.html

Drunk With Power, Spending Out of Control
Thursday, August 25, 2005
By Radley Balko

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You'd think that a Republican like Young would at least be embarrassed about all of this. He isn't. He's shameless. Upon hearing that only one other lawmaker in the entire Congress had outdone him in securing pork barrel projects, Young told the New York Times, "I'd like to be a little oinker, myself. If he's the chief porker, I'm upset."

Consider the case of Sen. Tom Coburn, another of the few in Congress willing to stand up to unrestrained spending. After a six-year career fighting waste in the House, Coburn won election to the Senate, and began putting administrative holds on his colleagues' wasteful projects. That didn't sit well with his fellow Republicans. Coburn's own party soon filed an ethics complaint against him.

His transgression? Coburn continues his medical practice in Oklahoma in addition to his duties as a U.S. senator. That apparently, is a violation of Senate ethics. Diverting millions of taxpayer dollars to pet projects that bear one's name and help one get reelected is not an ethical violation, but practicing medicine is. The chairman of the Senate Ethics Committee who will hear Coburn's complaint is Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott. Lott recently told Roll Call that after 30 years as a U.S. senator, he has learned how to work around pesky do-gooders like Coburn. "I fold into bills where you can't find them," Lott boasted. "I've been around here long enough to know how to bury it."

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They are so egotistical that they boast about hiding pork projects along with even stating they are jealous when others outdo them. Perhaps this is why our country is so much in debt - the repubs are holding contests to try and outdo each other. This is just sick. They should be called the borrow and spend republicans.

[BrklynLiberal]

1. H-Y-P-O-C-R-I-T-E-S!

See this thread, in which Bill (cat killer)Frist blames the Dems for the $8Trillion debt, for another excellent example of this:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x731066

[thereismore]

2. make that BORROW AND SPEND republicans nt

[demgurl]

3. Changed it. eom