GOP senators kill spending bill over $8 billion in earmarks

[Elmore Furth]

Source: LA Times

Republicans on Friday reveled in a victory over government spending that showcased their resolve in the fight over the federal purse.

By killing a $1.3-trillion spending bill, the GOP extinguished a sheaf of earmarked expenditures and drew in straying GOP colleagues — even those who had inserted the earmarks and helped write the bill, which would have funded the government through September 2011.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D- Nevada) withdrew the bill Thursday night in the face of Republican threats to consume the rest of the session debating it. He agreed to offer a slimmed-down, stopgap measure that would put most major spending decisions in the hands of the next Congress, when Republicans will control the House and hold more seats in the Senate.

Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.), a tea party favorite, gave rare kudos to his party. "It's a good day to be a Republican," he said.



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[rfranklin]

1. Especially when you just blew 100 times that amount on tax breaks...

Not to mention the continuing drain of two foreign occupations and a military budget that is so obscene that nobody can mention it.

[NeoConsSuck]

2. What happened to all that 'compromise'

That lovey-dovey feeling of working together with Obama? Oh, I see. That only applies to when both parties are working together to give tax cuts to the rich. THEN we have compromise.

[rucky]

3. I wonder how many potential jobs got killed.

Not all earmarks are bridges to nowhere.

[DenverDad]

7. Agreed.

I wonder what the nature of the expenditure with which they were so offended. What was in the bill?

[Mr. Sparkle]

4. they are the American Taliban, plain and simple. n/t

[justgamma]

6. We know of at least two groups who have stated

that they want to break the back of the American government. The Republicans and our enemies.

[Botany]

5. 900 billion (tax cut for the rich) > 8 billion in earmarks

They are without shame and don't give a damn about the American people.

[Creative]

8. Earmarks = Corruption.

Unfortunately, both sides are guilty.

[Thor_MN]

9. The current meme of these lying assholes: The GOP was shut out of government

soon they can control making the important decisions. The truth is they shut themselves out in order to obstuct and if the house dems adopt the party of no title, they will scream from their complinat media how government has been messed up for years by obstructionism.

[tibbiit]

10. Note the Frame!!!

Republicans Good... Quick Big Doers to save Amurka, Democrats Weak Big Spender do-nothings!
sickening and much more like this to come.
tib