I never appreciated the Hastert-led Republican Congress, but the current Democrat congress is even worse. Pelosi and Reid promised an improvement in ethics when the Democrats took over, but it looks like the same old backroom deal-making. And then I read this -- a congressional leadership more concerned about protecting earmarks than solving the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression:
As the stock market plunged nearly 1,000 points in two days this week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada was preoccupied with protecting billions of dollars worth of earmarks contained in a separate, unpublished committee report that got a one-sentence reference in a giant $612 billion defense bill. Reid engineered the 61-to-32 vote to limit debate on the bill, thus barring consideration of an amendment offered by Sen. Jim DeMint.
And then I look at California, a state that has floundered under a Democrat-led state legislature. Recently there was a budget clash with the Governor Schwarzeneggar (R), which I have not followed. But he was threatening to veto a budget (and I think on solid ground) that the Democrat California legislature submitted to him. One issue was:
Schwarzenegger had criticized the earlier plan for failing to meet his demands for a more robust rainy day fund. He said the budget relied on accounting gimmicks to close a $15.2 billion deficit -- such as collecting an extra 10 percent of workers' income tax in advance and repaying it later -- that could lead to an even larger deficit next year.
The Democrat legislature is foisting the problem on the next year's budget--I guess they have learned from Washington.
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