Rep. Dem WI Tammy Baldwin - no blank check (editorial)

[rodeodance]

I am proud to say that she is my US rep. to Congress


http://www.madison.com/tct/opinion/index.php?ntid=32750&ntpid=0

Editorial: Baldwin - no blank check

An editorial
March 19, 2005

Most members of Congress have ceased to function as serious legislators. They simply walk through the motions, collect their checks and then vote as the White House tells them they must.

This is not a complaint merely about most Republicans in the House and Senate - whose unwavering allegiance to even their president's maddest schemes mirrors that of Sancho Panza to Don Quixote. The Democrats are just about as bad, as was illustrated by their support this week of the administration's demand for another $81.4 billion to maintain the U.S. occupation of Iraq.

When the House voted on the emergency supplemental appropriation to maintain the occupation, the vote was a lopsided 388-43 in favor of giving the administration another blank check. Predictably, the Republicans split 226-3 in favor of the proposal. The short list of GOP dissenters included two longtime foes of the war, Texan Ron Paul and Tennesseean John Duncan, as well as North Carolinian Howard Coble, who says he is "fed up with picking up the newspaper and reading that we've lost another five or 10 of our young men and women in Iraq."

There were a few more Democratic dissenters, but not many. One hundred and sixty-two members of what is supposed to be the opposition party backed the president's plan while only 39 opposed it.

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[Eloriel]

1. "The Democrts are just about as bad..."

Man, it sure hurts to see what we all know confirmed by someone who REALLY knows.

Not sure I needed that tonight. However, I DO appreciate bald-faced honesty, wherever I find it. Go, Tammy!