Nearly half of the $21 billion that House Democrats added to President Bush's request for emergency war funding would go to nonmilitary spending and to pork projects.
The supplemental spending bill includes more than $3.7 billion in farm subsidies, $2.9 billion in additional Gulf Coast hurricane relief and $2.4 billion for social programs such as money for rural Northwest school districts, health insurance for poor children, energy assistance for poor families and others.
Tom Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, said the bill is "a blatant betrayal of the Democrats' campaign promise to restore fiscal accountability to Congress."
Flopping Aces bitch slaps the Dems and groups like Moving On which support this behavior.
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The war supplemental bill is the first major pork-barrel binge of the new Democratic Congress, continuing fiscally irresponsible practices that Nancy Pelosi and company promised in 2006 to end.
When the Democrats outbid the president on the one major category of spending they wish to cut, it does not bode well for their claims to be deficit hawks. Their budget priorities may be peanuts, but you can bet the price tag won't be.
Why the extra helpings of pork from the party that pledged to change the way Washington does business? These unrelated and often wasteful projects are intended to buy enough votes to paper over the Democrats' divisions over Iraq.
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