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To: Sully- who wrote (60664)	7/3/2007 7:09:21 PM
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Melissa Bean (D-Ill) hates the deficit but loves spending your money on cool stuff for herself By podcasts@redstate.com (Redstate Network) on Congress Redstate - Conservative News and Community Melissa Bean is a self-styled "Blue-dog Democrat." She is (ostensibly) fiscally conservative, among other "conservative" traits. She is very vocally anti-national debt and deficit, and supposedly wants you and the government to be more responsible with your money. But, of course, that's a lot easier to pay lip service to than to actually do. You see, when the taxpayers are writing you virtually blank checks, it's a whole lot harder not to just keep talking conservative economic policy while laughing all the way to the bank, as Ms. Bean has clearly done herself. Check out this picture as evidence (click link below for high-res version). Ms. Bean has up her obligatory Blue-Dog Dem anti-debt sign, decrying the "national debt" and blaring the figure of $29,000 owed per person in the US. (The Blue Dogs apparently do this in a vain attempt to seem like they care about the debt - as if using tax dollars to buy a bunch of signs doesn't simply add to the total, as well). In the foreground is a nice contrast to the sign: four brand new LCD flat panel HD televisions waiting to be installed in her office. The model number, clearly displayed on the box, is KDL-40S2010, which is a 40 inch Bravia LCD HDTV television that retails for $1,699.99 each. Yes, you heard that right - four high-end luxury televisions for her personal office on Capitol Hill. As a Hill staffer so eloquently said to me yesterday, "This single photo might be the perfect embodiment of Democrat hypocrisy on the debt." Melissa Bean: Just another Democrat who wants everybody else to be responsible with your money, while she spends it on cool stuff for herself. redstate.com en.wikipedia.org redstate.com dtvcity.com