Revolt: Republicans Angry About Omnibus Spending Bill Decry 'Total Mess'

[Roy Rolling]

Source: Fox

Republicans poring over a 1,924-page overarching spending bill proposed by Democrats to cover the rest of the fiscal year are threatening to grind the legislation to a halt, citing massive earmark spending, which, if passed, would be enacted into law without debate in the full Senate.

Two sources who spoke to Fox News are describing the legislation as "a total mess."

But the head of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, said he believes the legislation must pass.

"The twelve bills included in this package fulfill the Congress' most basic responsibility, to exercise the power of the purse," he said in a statement. "This measure reflects a year's worth of work by members of both parties. Together, we have closely scrutinized the president's budget request, held hundreds of hearings, thousands of meetings, and asked literally tens of thousands of questions to each and every federal department and agency seeking justification for how taxpayer dollars are being spent."

Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, responded in a statement, saying that after neglecting to pass a budget, "today we learn Senate Democrats now want to sandwich them together, totaling almost 2,000 pages, and jam them through in the waning moments of this lame duck session before anyone can read them. This political end-around reveals just how quickly my colleagues across the aisle have already forgotten the voters' message in November."



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/14/revolt-republicans-angry-omnibus-budget-decry-total-mess/

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Oh well, the Obama-McConnell honeymoon is over.

[Joanne98]

1. They have to pretend like they're against spending. It's a show.

[valerief]

2. It's probably all THEIR earmarks, too, that they're whining about. nt

[Roy Rolling]

5. No accounting for taste

Like TV, sometimes there's no acounting for taste in what the public will watch. What amazes me is how after less than a day, they have read and digested the 1900 pages they decry as containing too many earmarks (they inserted). I'm amazed, not that they jumped to conclusions, but I'm amazed they can read at all. Maybe they hired W to read to them like on 9/11---he has the chops for that.

[Matariki]

7. They *are* against spending - unless it's for war or their corporate donors.

Pretty obvious what they're up to. Cut taxes then scream about the deficit in order to dismantle social programs - and probably Social Security as well.

[bushisanidiot]

3. They need to STFU and do the people's business.

SIGN THE DAMNED BILL ALREADY, YOU IDIOTS!


SIGN IT!

[davidthegnome]

6. Uh huh

The rich peoples business. Borrowing money from China to give the wealthy here a little extra spending cash that they won't actually spend. What a novel idea.

[SpiralHawk]

4. Republicons going to take a MASSIVE DUMP on something they worked on all year

and pretend that it STINKS worse than the MASSIVE DUMP they are taking on it and the citizens of the USA. So crude. Soooo republicon.

[Thav]

8. Don't you know?

Republican shit doesn't stink.

[udbcrzy2]

9. Maybe they'll vote against it

Since they have already put their fixes in. This reminds me of the stimulus bill. They screwed it up with a bunch of tax cuts then they voted against it.

[COLGATE4]

10. Headline: Republicans angry about ____________. Obama compromises.

[Johnny Harpo]

11. If The Repukes Won't Cooperate To Pass A Budget Maybe...

Obama should just shut it down.

Like Bartlett did in West Wing.

Hmmm...perhaps a weekend at Camp David watching West Wing might help.

[Doctor_J]

12. More fox news posts

this place is troll heaven today.