The Democrats rightly condemn the Bush Administration’s profligate spending policies. But I suspect the Democrats’ criticism is based more on jealously than condemnation that he spends the people’s money like a drunken Kennedy.

The proof is in legislative actions the Plantation Party has taken this week in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the California General Assembly.

On the federal level the house Democrat leadership managed to pass on a party line vote the “omnibus spending bill.” Among other things, the Democrats demonstrated their support for the troops in Iraq by cutting off all funding for them. They also showed their support for border security and immigration reform by killing funding for a border fence, while at the same time providing $10 million in “emergency” funding for legal representation for illegal immigrants.

On the state level, California Democrats responded to the state’s $14-billion budget shortfall by calling for a new entitlement program that would cost more than the deficit. They want universal health care for all California residents (hmmm, what do you want to bet this means regardless of legal immigration status?). Way to go, guys.

The federal bill ran into common sense (and Republicans) in the Senate who decide that American soldiers dead on the battlefield for lack of ammunition is not good policy. The state bill still has to pass the state senate and the voters must approve taxing themselves to the tune of another $14 billion to provide health insurance for someone else.

The Democrats will provide more theater of the absurd as election day approaches; they can’t help themselves.
Just remember when you go to the polls who it is they want to tax and who will benefit. You can bet the tax will be on every working American and the benefits will go to someone else.

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Kip Allen is an award-winning broadcast and newspaper journalist currently residing in Southern California. He is a contributor to CaliforniaConservative.org, and you may read more of his work here.

1. Support for the troops is more than just throwing money at them. There is a certain amount of heart, patriotism, and setting of priorities that goes with it that Democrats seem totally devoid of in their falling ass over tincup race to to appease the entire
   f-ing world and impose Clintonian socialism.

   The bright side of the sordid mess Pelosi and Reid have wrought upon us is enough semblence of common sense left among a handful of Democrats and Republicans to stifle it. Despite all the naysaying from congressional Democrats and their freinds in the media, our Marines, Soldiers, Sailors and Airmen under Patreus have managed put Al Qaeda and the Taliban on the run. They know where they are, who they are and how they operate now they have the cooperation of Iraqis and Afghans alike in pointing them out. We are going to win this, whether Reid and Pelosi and Co. like it or not!

   Comment by T. A. Gray — December 21, 2007 @ 10:02 am