A Win for America!

Senate Democrats lost this week in their attempt to burden the American public and future generations with a massive omnibus-spending bill. Senator Harry Reid was unable to gather the necessary 60 votes to end debate on the bill introduced earlier this week. Obviously, no one had bothered to read the 1,924 page monstrosity but the few details that came out related to the bill made it unpopular amongst the American public. Democrats tried to add multiple earmarks to the bill that were earlier requested by Republicans to try and increase the likelihood that the bill would pass. The over 6,400 earmarks totaled about $8 billion out of the more than $1.24 trillion bill, but they symbolized everything that is wrong with Washington and how it operates. Senator Reid thought that he had nine Republicans supporting the bill, but once the American public heard about the bill and expressed their disgust for the typical Washington operations and let out a huge, “Hell NO” response to the absurd bill.

One of the great differences in Washington mentality between the Republicans and the Democrats could be summed up with this one bill. The Democrats supported a 1,924 page bill that most likely never read, while the Republicans supported a one page continuing resolution to keep the government open for a short term. I guess the Democrats didn’t believe the American public spoke earlier this November when they spoke with overwhelming volume that the same old same old Washington operations must change. It looks like starting now; things are beginning to do just that! Republicans will have to draft budgets and spending bills. Let’s hope that they understood the message of the past elections and pass spending bills that the keep the government open but without all the massive extra spending. Hopefully, they don’t use the past year as the budget base lines for each of the government agencies, since they were dramatically increased with the stimulus bill. Rather use as the budget from a few years ago as the base line.