[Southack]

Spending bills must originate in the House, per our Constitution.

These Democratic Senators are merely engaging in futile political masturbation.

[nonliberal]

How is that different than what the Republicans have been doing since 1994?

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Democrats Will Spend Social Security Surplus

. . . and I'll bet the sun rose in the East this morning, too . . .

[self_evident]

Conrad, who accused Bush of using the war on terror to justify unnecessary defense spending (see Human Events, March 11, page 1, "Democrats Reverse Field on Defense"), added to his budget a non-binding resolution that President Bush should not increase the pay of servicemen without also increasing the pay of civilian government employees.

So in other words, if we give our soldiers a raise for protecting our country, we also have to give the paper-pushers at INS a raise for letting in terrorists. The Dems seem to be truly clueless about 9-11. They think we've all settled down and they can get back to gutting our defense in favor of increasing the govt. dependency class.