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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17790)	11/14/2007 9:12:53 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Respond to of 224858

Millions earmarked for the "Tom Daschle Center"...what an insult to US taxpayers.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17790)	11/15/2007 12:21:23 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224858

Dropping License Plan Wins Praise for Spitzer loser demoRATS By NICHOLAS CONFESSORE and RAYMOND HERNANDEZ Published: November 15, 2007 WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 — A day after abandoning his proposal to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, Gov. Eliot Spitzer won the kind of wide acclaim from elected officials that he could not win for the proposal itself.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (17790)	11/15/2007 12:08:03 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224858

Rep. Jeff Flake wished he would have had more time to hang his head low to read a "massive, 853-page" conference report before voting on it. The Arizona Republican is critical of the Democratic leadership for giving congressmen only "one day to sift" through the monster labor-health & human services-veterans appropriations report. "Many of us were critical of our own Republican leadership in years past for not waiting the required three days between filing a bill and voting on it, but this is worse than anything we pulled," Mr. Flake says. Worse yet, the recent report contained 150 pages of earmarks, including $130,000 for a First Ladies Museum in Canton, Ohio. And then there were nine "airdropped" earmarks, including $1 million for the Thomas Daschle Center for Public Service and Representative Democracy, named for the former Democratic Senate majority leader from South Dakota who lost his bid for re-election in 2004.