Byrd Houses and Loons
December 15th, 2006Democrats will place a moratorium on pork-barrel spending until a “new system” to curb its excesses is in place, they say, but in an example of talking-out-of-both-sides-of-your-mouth, they’ve made Robert Byrd chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. Go through West Virginia, and you’ll see that everything is named after him: the Robert Byrd Bridge, the Robert Byrd Doghouse, the Robert Byrd Playground. West Virginia might just be the pork factory of the United States and Democrats expect us to believe that Byrd will make sure that pork is cooked proper instead of greased and put in the microwave? I’ll believe it when I see it, but I daresay that the Party must be warned: voters are serious, and if you don’t live up to your campaign promises, if you turn into the Republicans already, you’ll destroy the Party’s chances of winning the next election because voters will either a) distrust him or b) he’ll be a Democrat who, like me, speaks out about excesses and that’ll cause an internal rift in the Party when the Bacon Senators take offense at his rhetoric.
Something quite disturbing came across my desk here at the Office of the Independent Blogger today and I must share it with you. The White House is blocking publication of editorials that don’t match its policy. Don’t you love George W. Bush? (And if you do, or don’t but would like to educate him, please send him a letter or email [President@WhiteHouse.gov] re-directing him here, please. And you might want to tell them to re-direct it to the finest Defense Secretary we’ve ever had. Except that General Marshall might be a little too dead to receive it.