"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Thursday, March 05, 2009

Change you can count on

When?

Maureen Dowd on pork in the budget.
Just veto it.

Op-Ed Columnist - Stage of Fools - NYTimes.com:

"In one of his disturbing spells of passivity, President Obama decided not to fight Congress and live up to his own no-earmark pledge from the campaign.

He’s been lecturing us on the need to prune away frills while the economy fizzles. He was slated to make a speech on “wasteful spending” on Wednesday.

“You know, there are times where you can afford to redecorate your house and there are times where you need to focus on rebuilding its foundation,” he said recently about the “hard choices” we must make. Yet he did not ask Congress to sacrifice and make hard choices; he let it do a lot of frivolous redecorating in its budget."

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