Your tax dollars at work

[soondifferent]

I'm sure the wildlife refuge could use a couple bridges, too

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/04/10/national/10ALAS.html?pagewanted=all&position=

[Jason McCullough]

It's cute watching Republicans pretend they care about the defiict by going after highway funding. Funny projects, though.

[Lizard_King]

It's cute watching Republicans pretend they care about the defiict by going after highway funding. Funny projects, though.It's almost as entertaining as watching Democrats pretend they care about the poor and minorities by giving them just enough handouts to keep them voting.

[Woolen Horde]

It's cute watching Republicans pretend they care about the defiict by going after highway funding. Funny projects, though.It's almost as entertaining as watching Democrats pretend they care about the poor and minorities by giving them just enough handouts to keep them voting.

Yeah, but Republicans like to pretend that their shit don't stink. When in fact, it reeks.

[Lizard_King]

Yeah, but Republicans like to pretend that their shit don't stink. When in fact, it reeks.
Oh yeah, that's the difference. Or maybe, just maybe, it's purely a matter of where you stand on the political spectrum as to whose shit stinks more.

[Uncle Larry]

OH YEAH??? YO MAMA!

[Jason McCullough]

It's cute watching Republicans pretend they care about the defiict by going after highway funding. Funny projects, though.It's almost as entertaining as watching Democrats pretend they care about the poor and minorities by giving them just enough handouts to keep them voting.

Erm, since when is the Democratic coalition built on handouts to minorities. I know that's what people who don't like Democrats think it's built on, but it's not. What, you think everyone's lining up for....well, welfare's been reformed. What are you referring to?

[Lizard_King]

Erm, since when is the Democratic coalition built on handouts to minorities. I know that's what people who don't like Democrats think it's built on, but it's not. What, you think everyone's lining up for....well, welfare's been reformed. What are you referring to?

Tell me you're not being serious. Tell me you have a head injury. But don't claim that a tradition from FDR's "prime pumping" to the Great Society to the Third Way to the present day whimpers about universal healthcare are to be swept under the rug for another McCullough Moment.

[Andrew Mayer]

Yeah, but Republicans like to pretend that their shit don't stink. When in fact, it reeks.
Oh yeah, that's the difference. Or maybe, just maybe, it's purely a matter of where you stand on the political spectrum as to whose shit stinks more.

There are no high profile investigations of any Democrats right now.

Too bad the same can't be said about Republicans. In no particular order:

* The Senate's top cop investigated Republican hacking of Democratic accounts and theft of thousands of documents. After finding probable cause for wrongdoing, the Senate Judiciary Committee recommended the Justice Department undertake its own criminal probe.

* The House and Senate Intelligence Committees are both investigating intelligence lapses heading up to the Iraq War.

* The Senate Intelligence Committee is investigating Bush's pre-war lies about Iraq's WMDs and ties to al Qaida.

* Rove, Cheney's entire political team and others are being investigated by a Justice Department special prosecutor for leaking the name of a covert CIA agent (Plame) to discredit her husband -- a critic of the administration's trumped up charges that Iraq was seeking nuclear material in Niger.

* HHS Inspector General Dara Corrigan is investigating administration lies about the true cost of the Medicare bill. Remember, not only did the Bush Administration undercount the costs (from $395 billion to $521 billion), but then threatened an auditor with his job if he revealed the true numbers.

* The General Accounting Office is investigating the fake "news reports" the White House created to promote the Medicare law's new prescription drug coverage provisions.

* And being the gift that keeps on giving, the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee and the Justice Department are both (and seperately) investigating bribery allegations as the administration and its congressional allies twisted arms to get the necessary votes in the House to pass the Medicare bill.

* Tom DeLay is under criminal investigation on whether his Texas political action committee (Texans for a Republican Majority) improperly financed the GOP's takeover of the Texas legislature. DeLay has already signaled he may be forced to step down from his leadership post (even if just temporarily) if indicted.

* Connecticut Governor John Rowland is being investigated by federal prosecutors for a shockingly brazen level of corruption. Even the state's GOP establishment has abandoned the governor, and impeachment proceedings are likely unless he resigns his post.

[Jason McCullough]

Erm, since when is the Democratic coalition built on handouts to minorities. I know that's what people who don't like Democrats think it's built on, but it's not. What, you think everyone's lining up for....well, welfare's been reformed. What are you referring to?

Tell me you're not being serious. Tell me you have a head injury. But don't claim that a tradition from FDR's "prime pumping" to the Great Society to the Third Way to the present day whimpers about universal healthcare are to be swept under the rug for another McCullough Moment.

With the exception of the Great Society, those programs weren't designed to benefit minorities; the chief beneficiaries were always poor whites.

I have no idea how universal healthcare is a handout to minorities.