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To give this some balance, on the Joe Scarborough show the other night, one of the freshmen GOP congressmen pointed out that Democrat amendments that would add billions of dollars to spending bills have been defeated recently. When the ant-Bushbutts screw things up again and empower the Liberals again, all that spending, and a lot more, will be put back into new spending bills.

Those amendments were defeated because of Republicans control the House. We will control the House for at least the rest of the decade. It has nothing to do with who the President is. At this point, I think the only thing that could cost us the House would be if Dubya wins re-election *and* doesn't mend his big-spending ways before the '06 midterms.

I don't want Howard Dean nominating judges! I don't want to count on a Democrat to keep spending in check. How perverse is that?

"To give this some balance, on the Joe Scarborough show the other night, one of the freshmen GOP congressmen pointed out that Democrat amendments that would add billions of dollars to spending bills have been defeated recently. When the ant-Bushbutts screw things up again and empower the Liberals again, all that spending, and a lot more, will be put back into new spending bills."

That only proves that the Democrats are lunatics who will take whatever the Republicans want to do and add to it. We saw that stupidity even in 1995, when the GOP wanted 3% for school lunches, and the Democrats demgogued that as destruction of kids, when the Democrats were out there asking for 3.5% increase.

That doesnt mean the fallout from Bush declines in popularity would help or hurt this issue. For whatever reason, Bush thinks it 'helps' his political situation to throw away $15B on African AIDS, hundreds of billions on prescription drug benefit, huge pork farm bill, and across-the-board spending increases. This is irresponsible spending, and it further hurts us because the tax cuts will be blamed and likely undone by this wild spending behavior.

IF WE MAKE NOISE ON THIS, BUSH WILL REALIZE EXCESSIVE LIBERAL SPENDING BEHAVIOR WOULD COST HIM CORE BASE SUPPORT. WE CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN HOW HIS ADMIN APPROACHES THIS.

It's all about whether the Bush admin will have their OMB show frugality or let the hogs run wild. ... and about whether the Republican *chairmen* of the Budget and Appropriations will should *real restraint* from the get-go.

The fact remains: We are spending too much, we are adding to welfare state when we should cut it. Government wastes too much and spends too much, and nobody in Washington DC seems to be paying attention to that simple fact.