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I added to it by not being clear but you are confusing stop-gap under Continued Resolution funding which adds no new items and is usually lower than the budgets that were not passed in the first place and Emergency Suplemental (IE Iraq war funding and Katrina relief) to which riders and pork usualy cling to like socks to a nylon blanket fresh out of the dryer...
And as for bloat I remember you piling on to the "Contract on America" when there were actual reforms with a good chance of passing that would on the face of them reign in spending on pork. Were you in favor of a ballanced budget amendment? Dems and republiocrats killed it but good completely misrepresenting a decrease in the rate of groth as draconian cuts. Cuts that would literaly steal school lunches from the hands of kids etc etc. Same deal for line item veto or attempts to kill the horific beast that enables the yearly lurch towards expansionism the Omnibus spending Bill; a practice that I am sure the new spendthrift congress won't pick back up...
I have no love for pork spending Republicans but if there was a Democratic alternitive stripped of pet pork projects that had full party support that was less than the republican budget and taking Iraq/Katrina out of the equasion which both passed last year with bipartisan support. If they could leave that piggybank off the table and still do better then I would conceede that democrats would have a better shot at implementing sound financial stewardship of public funds... I doubt you could provide it though since the Democrat alternatives I found were consistantly 17-19 Billion more than the current CR and the alternitives that show it lower than the presidents proposed budget seem each to take the difference retroactively and wholly out of proposed IRAQ spending or from budgeted non emergency DOD.
Oh and before you think oh ooooh oooh I found one I would also apriciate not being taxed up the arse to do it either.
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