Today, the House of Representatives performed an override of the President's veto of the Farm Bill. This bill provides about $307 billion in agricultural subsidies for domestic nutrition programs, crop subsidies, and foreign aid. This is Bush's second veto that was struck down in a resounding 316-to-108 vote.
This seems like a defeat, yes? Republican and Democrats working together in a strong way, right? Wrong. This is perhaps the single most-hurtful vote the Republican Party could have performed. The Party of fiscal conservatism and less government overrode a conservative president's veto that was done to prevent excessive spending. A few democrats, such as Ron Kind of Wisconsin did the right thing and voted against the override in an effort to keep Bush's veto in place. He wanted to do this because the bill was "bloated and wasteful."
In the Senate, it also approved the override and sent the colossal waste on to the American taxpayer, who now has over $300 billion to pay.
One Senator who stood out, like he always does, was John McCain, my boy. He voted against this in that it is a ridiculous waste of money and ineffective. This will help McCain in the election because it shows his fiscal responsibility and conservative values.
But, as expected, the man everyone (well, not quite everyone) wants to have a love affair with, Barack Obama, voted "Yea" for the override and made the national debt even greater despite his ramblings about how the country is being hurt daily by George W. Bush due to his spending habits.
This just shows the integrity and strength of Obama. His rank-and-file vote along with the rest of the high-power Democrats just show how he is a political puppet; he cannot make decisions without appeasing or agreeing with those higher in the Democratic Party.
In short, when Bush gave us a good dose of financial preservation, Congress disagrees with him. I guess the saying that goes "Damned if he do and damned if he don't." applies here. Ridiculous.
This seems like a defeat, yes? Republican and Democrats working together in a strong way, right? Wrong. This is perhaps the single most-hurtful vote the Republican Party could have performed. The Party of fiscal conservatism and less government overrode a conservative president's veto that was done to prevent excessive spending. A few democrats, such as Ron Kind of Wisconsin did the right thing and voted against the override in an effort to keep Bush's veto in place. He wanted to do this because the bill was "bloated and wasteful."
In the Senate, it also approved the override and sent the colossal waste on to the American taxpayer, who now has over $300 billion to pay.
One Senator who stood out, like he always does, was John McCain, my boy. He voted against this in that it is a ridiculous waste of money and ineffective. This will help McCain in the election because it shows his fiscal responsibility and conservative values.
But, as expected, the man everyone (well, not quite everyone) wants to have a love affair with, Barack Obama, voted "Yea" for the override and made the national debt even greater despite his ramblings about how the country is being hurt daily by George W. Bush due to his spending habits.
This just shows the integrity and strength of Obama. His rank-and-file vote along with the rest of the high-power Democrats just show how he is a political puppet; he cannot make decisions without appeasing or agreeing with those higher in the Democratic Party.
In short, when Bush gave us a good dose of financial preservation, Congress disagrees with him. I guess the saying that goes "Damned if he do and damned if he don't." applies here. Ridiculous.
3 comments:
Let's just remember how Bush refused to use his veto powers when the Republican Congress was going out of control with spending. Also, I believe Obama criticizes Bush over his tax cuts and not necessarily his spending policy unless he is talking about the War in Iraq.
I second what Jake said. Obama doesn't criticize spending; he is a Democrat after all. What he and others criticize the president is spending in the wrong areas, like giving excessive money to the Department of 'Offense', and not compensating this spending by raising taxes.
Also, you said he was a rank and file voter, but you gave no evidence. Perhaps he agreed with it because of his convictions? Perhaps most of the people that voted for it simply agreed? Not everything is a liberal conspiracy. Sometimes people just make logical decisions.
On the agricultural subsidies, part of the reason it is so unbelievably necessary, and a reason you completely ignored, is the looming food crisis that will rock the modern world. Whether I agree with it or not, I dunno; if you could post the HR number I'd like to check it out.
I just can't believe this. It is outrageous. When i was looking at farm subsidies in my AP Human Geo class i was speechless too. A farmer with a 3 billion, will be payed 4 billion to not grow all of his crop. So grow crop and get 3, or don't grow, do no work, and get 4? Seriously what would you do? I know i wouldn't grow it. But for them to put out 307 billion to pretty much tell people not to grow their own crops is outrageous. Couldn't we be using that money for something else, because we all know i think we might be in a little bit of debt. Not to mention if we grew those crops we could, i don't know send them to countries is Africa where there are staving people? I donno, just my 2cents
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