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Democrats in daHouse Hang onto your Wallets

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Posted by DepotGuy 2007-01-30 12:09|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Ya' know how you can fight malaria?

BRING BACK DDT!!!

It has been scientifically shown that, Rachel Carson's accusations notwithstanding, DDT is effective and does not result in the massive ecological damage that Carson said it did.

Posted by FOTSGreg">FOTSGreg 2007-01-30 12:44|| www.fire-on-the-suns.com]">[www.fire-on-the-suns.com] 2007-01-30 12:44|| Front Page Top

#2 "Democrats have unveiled a massive spending bill."

May as well make a keyboard macro for that phrase, it's gonna be a long two years...

Posted by Dave D.">Dave D. 2007-01-30 13:04|| 2007-01-30 13:04|| Front Page Top

#3 A little background: this appears to be (though strangly, the article never mentions it) the appropriations bill for fiscal year 2007 which began Oct. 1, 2006. Uncle has been operating for 4 months on "continuing resolutions" that maintain spending levels at the prior year's level. This bill would essentially just make that policy official for the rest of the year. For many years now, Congress has not been able to pass appropriations bills prior to the end of the fiscal year, which results in a big "catch-all" bill with little discretion as to what to fund and why, but plenty of pork. More evidence of Congress blowing off their responsibilities (not that we need more evidence).

Posted by Spot">Spot 2007-01-30 13:23|| 2007-01-30 13:23|| Front Page Top

#4 That's it. I'm moving to Australia.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2007-01-30 13:48|| 2007-01-30 13:48|| Front Page Top

#5 Rachel Carson

There's a Middle School near me by that name. I hadn't heard what she was known for before now.

Posted by eLarson 2007-01-30 15:42|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-01-30 15:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Rachel Carson. The Al Gore of the 1950's.

Posted by tu3031 2007-01-30 15:44|| 2007-01-30 15:44|| Front Page Top

#7 Yep, she killed all the unborn baby ducks.

Posted by Shipman 2007-01-30 16:13|| 2007-01-30 16:13|| Front Page Top

#8 While I am not in favor of the Dems ramming this through I do like the part of freezing budgets. I would also favor SHRINKING some budgets and elimniating some agencies that exists for no reason what so ever (ie Indian Affairs, Education, etc).

Posted by Cyber Sarge 2007-01-30 17:26|| 2007-01-30 17:26|| Front Page Top

#9 Cyber Sarge is right. The "silver lining" to this is that the "O&M" and Salary budgets remained locked at the FY06 levels. It also (by some accounts) cuts out a LOT of pork.

The FBI, facing hiring curbs, would get a modest $200 million increase in its $6 billion budget.

That can't be right. FBI only gets $6 billion? I know it's a lot in terms of taxes, but to put it in perspective, the EPA gets $8-9 billion. Of course, a LOT of EPA's budget is "Special Appropriations" or what we call pork too.

Posted by BA 2007-01-30 20:14|| 2007-01-30 20:14|| Front Page Top

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