If there is anything more unbelievable than this one? I haven't seen anything more ridiculous in the news recently. In today's Wall Street Journal it was reported that... "Top Republican lawmakers are positioning themselves for battle over President-elect Barack Obama's economic recovery plan, signaling...that they will cast themselves as guardians against excessive spending..."

These are the same people who ran a modest national debt and a balanced federal budget up to a crippling amount of debt and out-of-control spending in only eight years. And that was when the economy was still OK. John McCain described it as "pigs feeding at the trough".

Maybe the problem is that when the bridges and roads get re-built, they won't be THEIR bridges and roads. We wouldn't want the wrong guys to get credit would we? That's more important than the public welfare it seems--getting credit rather than governing responsibly. I just hope that when all the earmarks are sneaked into the stimulus legislation that then President Obama vetoes it and sends it back to have all the pork fat taken out. At the least, I hope that the "earmarkers" get front page attention for their self-serving conduct.

Here's the link from the WSJ. I have a subscription, so I hope you'll be able to read it...


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123059778577841155.html