THIS is the reason Republicans filibuster!

The Democrats can't help but throw everything including the kitchen sink into every bill just so they can avoid debating all of their spending in seperate bills. Then they can claim the Republicans are the ones voting down the bills like this one for war spending. It is a bunch of crap that in a war bill they 'throw in' $10 billion for teachers and there's $18 billion in new Energy Department loan guarantees.

Obama asks for $30 billion request for the troop surge in Afghanistan and it balloons to $60 billion with everything else they throw in. The Republicans asked for a 'clean' bill. But no, the Dems had to throw anything they can on there because they know we need the money for the tropp surge. The Dems have to be stopped!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100630/ap_ ... ar_funding

The Viking wrote: The Democrats can't help but throw everything including the kitchen sink into every bill just so they can avoid debating all of their spending in seperate bills. Then they can claim the Republicans are the ones voting down the bills like this one for war spending. It is a bunch of crap that in a war bill they 'throw in' $10 billion for teachers and there's $18 billion in new Energy Department loan guarantees.

Obama asks for $30 billion request for the troop surge in Afghanistan and it balloons to $60 billion with everything else they throw in. The Republicans asked for a 'clean' bill. But no, the Dems had to throw anything they can on there because they know we need the money for the tropp surge. The Dems have to be stopped!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100630/ap_ ... ar_funding

Business as usual, as practiced by BOTH parties. But agree it should be stopped. Whatever happened to the line item veto (not that it matters in this case)?

Agreed. I should say, This is the reason both sides filibuster.

They really need to somehow reduce bill size or make them single issue bills.

What's to debate about money to avoid teacher layoffs and money to hire more border guards. Are you against either of those?

And are you trying to say Republicans never add unrelated items into bills they propose -- it's only Democrats?

pineinthegrass wrote:

The Viking wrote: The Democrats can't help but throw everything including the kitchen sink into every bill just so they can avoid debating all of their spending in seperate bills. Then they can claim the Republicans are the ones voting down the bills like this one for war spending. It is a bunch of crap that in a war bill they 'throw in' $10 billion for teachers and there's $18 billion in new Energy Department loan guarantees.

Obama asks for $30 billion request for the troop surge in Afghanistan and it balloons to $60 billion with everything else they throw in. The Republicans asked for a 'clean' bill. But no, the Dems had to throw anything they can on there because they know we need the money for the tropp surge. The Dems have to be stopped!!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100630/ap_ ... ar_funding

Business as usual, as practiced by BOTH parties. But agree it should be stopped. Whatever happened to the line item veto (not that it matters in this case)?

The Supreme Court has now ruled the line item veto unconstitutional. The pro-spending lobby in Washington is uncorking bottles of champagne. But oddly enough, there is quiet celebration on Capitol Hill as well -- among Democrats and Republicans alike -- now that pork projects all over the country will now be spared presidential cancellation. In fact, last December, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W.Va.), long the prince of pork on Capitol Hill, declared that if the court strikes down the line item veto, it would be "my Christmas wish come true."

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=5657

And that was 1998.