Sen. Kyl on Obama and the omnibus bill

posted at 8:26 am on December 11, 2009 by Pundette
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Apologies are owed to drunken sailors everywhere. Never in a thousand years (or should we say a trillion, since that’s the new baseline) could they have spent as wildly and irresponsibly as the current US Congress has. Our legislators have an unfair advantage, to be sure, since it’s not their own money they’re spending; that does tend to loosen the purse strings.

If you can, watch Sen. Jon Kyl’s entire 13 minute speech, a devastating summary of the contents of the omnibus appropriations bill just passed by the House and now before the Senate. He will make you will long for responsible leadership. From today’s Washington Post:

Each of the half-dozen measures is bigger than the one from the year before, and Republicans complained that Democrats are spending recklessly, given the growing federal budget deficit.

“There is no question that the era of big government has returned to Washington, D.C.,” said Rep. Jerry Lewis (Calif.), the top Republican on the Appropriations panel. “I cannot and will not support this package of spending bills, because it simply spends too much money and makes a mockery of our legislative process.”

One highlight from Sen. Kyl’s speech, at 11:45 on the video:

Cross posted here.

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