Mar.13.2008
11:37 am
by johnsblogs42
The SAVE Act and Pork Spending: A New Bi-partisan Era?
As hard as it is to believe, could we be witnessing the beginning of a new era in BI-Partisan politics? While I hold no overly exuberant hope for that, we may at least be seeing politicians putting aside party lines to start getting the jobs done for which they were elected.
Nah, not likely.
But, we now have TWO, count’em TWO examples of this this week in both the SAVE Act and the Pork Spending.
McCain is only one of six members of the Senate who doesn’t go for earmarks. I guess that’s one plus I can give him. And he has brought the issue up many times, usually to be defeated not only by Democrats, but recently by some of those in his own party. Obama and Clinton are joining McCain in this call for a one year hiatus in earmarks. Rep.’s and Dem.’s in agreement? Astonishing.
Even Pelosi has jumped on this bandwagon, but with a considerable number of aides seeing this bill failing, it’s really not much of a risk for her. Even if it passes, it’s only for one year. But that’s at least $15 billion+ that WON’T go to pet projects.
HERE is some more about this.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_el_pr/mccain_pet_projects
The other joint effort, is the SAVE Act. An immigration bill that, from what I’ve read of it thus far has NO path to citizenship in it. And it stresses “attrition through enforcement.” The choice that over 85% of the country prefers when dealing with illegals. Most polls usually only gave the options of “amnesty or deportation.” When given the attrition option, almost everyone picks that.
The SAVE Act was introduced first by Rep. Heath Shuler (D-N.C.) and then introduced by Senators Mark Pryor (D-Ark.), Mary Landrieu (D-La.) and David Vitter (R-La.). Since it’s introduction, they have been joined by a whole host of signers, both R’s and D’s, and it has also been endorsed by NumbersUSA.
HERE is more on this.
http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html
One can only hope, that this sort of cooperation will continue. Although unlikely that it will, an oft recited phrase beckons to me in, “A man can dream, can’t he?”
Article info provided by Yahoo/AP and NumbersUSA.
http://hoopyfrooddude.blogspot.com/2008/03/save-act-and-pork-spending-new-bi.html
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