Of course the Dems are buying votes. This is outrageous.
They are literally selling out freedom for oil.
"Of course the Dems are buying votes."
The Republicans would never do that, would they? I seem to remember something about a bridge up in Alaska, but I am getting older, maybe I'm wrong. Then there's that "immigration reform" we've all heard of from the administration. Money for votes???!!! My friend, that's what politicians do and it makes little difference whether they are Rs or Ds.
Congress invited this response when it cut funding for LIHEAP (heating oil assistance for poor people) while shoveling money into useless Alaskan bridges. We have people here who could barely afford to heat their homes last year who have since seen prices nearly double, and the aid that they received has been cut. Someone's willing to help, that makes him the sucker.
In the meantime, the southerners in Congress are thrilled to tap our northern tax money for their own farm subsidies ratholes.
And don't bother bringing up the Big Dig--Massachusetts has ALWAYS paid more to Washington than we've gotten back, even during the worst days of Tip O'Neill, when at best we came within a hair of breaking evem. Now we get back about 75 cents for every dollar we send to Washington and then on to West Virginia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and Alaska...