 |
Thu Nov 20 2008
|
|
|
Departments Letters to the Editor/ Free Press Forum
Bush and earmarks: whoop-de-doo
by Richard Viguerie
January 31, 2008
Manassas, Virginia - Richard A. Viguerie, issued the following statement regarding President Bush’s policy announced in the State of the Union address regarding earmarks in appropriations bills:
Instead of killing the earmarks in last year’s huge omnibus appropriations bill, President Bush will leave in place all of the 11,735 earmarks, totaling $16.9 billion.
And instead of saying that he would veto any bill containing earmarks, Bush said he would veto legislation that did not reduce the earmarks by 50 percent.
Whoop-de-doo.
President Reagan vetoed the Highway Bill in 1987 because it contained 121 earmarks. But President Bush has given the go-ahead to 5,867 earmarks--half the current number. Obviously, the Republican team in the White House and Congress has abandoned all pretense of governing as fiscal conservatives.
President Bush came into office sounding like a conservative Republican. He is leaving sounding like a liberal Democrat. Bush seems disinterested in the future of the GOP, as it drifts without leadership and is in danger of imploding.
It is clear nothing is going to change in the GOP until the leadership in the White House, the Congress, and the party changes.”
Email this article to a friend
|
|
 | |
Don't forget to check out articles from 2007 and 2008Letters to the Editor/ Free Press Forum
"GM, the economy and the environment" November 17, 2008 Theresa, Howard, et. al.
"Re: GM must re-make the mass transit system it murdered" November 17, 2008 Joanne Forman
"Former Buckeye" November 17, 2008 Paul Welch
"Please protect the process!" October 18, 2008 Free Press Reader
"Global warming" October 13, 2008 Nicole O’Connor
"A call for change" October 13, 2008 Stephanie Smith
"My terms for the bail-out" September 29, 2008 Robert A. Letcher, PhD
"Teenage politics" September 29, 2008 Sammi Cerino
"The bi-race card" September 7, 2008 Christopher Bifani
"Dig a little deeper Dr. Barnard, A response" August 3, 2008 Mitzie McElhaney, RN
"What should be a definition for a millionaire?" June 2, 2008 Ivan Simic
"Teenage politics" May 19, 2008 Sammi Cerino
"My last flight and welcome to it!" May 17, 2008 Paul Quinnett
"Voter IDs" May 8, 2008 Frank Fawcett
"Rights without "identifcation"" May 5, 2008 Robert O'Rourke
"About the voting law" May 4, 2008 Jerry Whitlow
"Comment on column" May 4, 2008 Felicia Cerini
"I could not disagree more with Bob Fitrakis' City of Peace article" April 3, 2008 Keith Shamblin
"Fitrakis: City of Peace" April 3, 2008 Gregg Gordon
"rBGH" April 3, 2008 Mitzie McElhaney, RN
"Way to go Israel!" March 14, 2008 Mahmoud El-Yousseph
"Bush and earmarks: whoop-de-doo" January 31, 2008 Richard Viguerie
"Homeless in the U.S." January 29, 2008 Peter Macdonald
"Activist community" January 27, 2008 Steve Vargo
"The survivor, the meteor, and the champion" January 20, 2008 Hank Edson
Read Articles by Year: 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000

All content © 1970-2008 The Columbus Free Press Disclaimer |