For Lanya, Democrats want to outspend Bush by $205 billion

[R.R.]

Even worse, the Democrats have made clear all their talk about "fiscal discipline" is just that--talk. They're proposing to spend $205 billion more than the president has proposed over the next five years. And the opening wedge of this binge is $22 billion more in spending proposed for the coming year. Only in Washington could someone in public life be so clueless to say, as Sen. Reid and Rep. Pelosi have, that $22 billion is a "relatively small" difference.

Let's also be clear about what it means to roll back the president's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts, as the Democrats want to do. Every income-tax payer will pay more as all tax rates rise. Families will pay $500 more per child as they lose the child tax credit. Taxes on small businesses would go up by an average of about $4,000. Retirees will pay higher taxes on investment retirement income. And now we have the $1 trillion tax increase proposed as "tax reform" by the Democrats' chief tax writer last month.

http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010843

[R.R.]

Hillary is the Pork Queen

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) has won tens of millions of dollars more in federal earmarks this year than her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, even though two of them have significantly more Senate seniority.

A review of the first three appropriations conference reports finished by Senate and House negotiators shows that Clinton has successfully requested at least $530 million worth of projects.

[Xavier_Onassis]

It matters not that your hero doofus Juniorbush has pissed away bazillions in his stupid and incompetently waged war. What still frightens you is that someone might actually spend American tax money on something that might benefit a fellow American.

What needs to happen is that we need to get the Hell out of Iraq and concentrate on our own people.

[Amianthus]

What still frightens you is that someone might actually spend American tax money on something that might benefit a fellow American.

So, Republican pork is bad, but Democratic pork is good?

[R.R.]

"It matters not that your hero doofus Juniorbush has pissed away bazillions in his stupid and incompetently waged war."

Does it not matter to you that the Dems keep on voting to continue funding for the war? They promised to end it, but they keep on voting to fund it. Is that not a contradiction for you?

The Dems promised to end earmarking. They not only failed to end it, but they are rolling around in the slop more than ever before. Hillary has become the Queen of Pork.

[Xavier_Onassis]

I personally want them to end the war, now.

Hillary is not my favorite candidate. I like Kucinich, Edwards, Biden, and Dodd all better, in that order.

But she is better than Guilani, Romney or McCain.