Pushing the Envelope on Hypocrisy

From the AP on Bush's new push to institute a line-item veto:

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"Under the current system, many lawmakers are able to insert funding for pet projects into large spending bills," Bush said in his Saturday radio address.

Bush says this leaves lawmakers with two bad options: They can vote against an entire bill even though it contains worthwhile spending, or they can vote for a bill even though it includes money for special-interest projects.

"The president is left with the same dilemma -- either he has to veto the entire bill, or sign the bill and approve the unnecessary spending," Bush said, adding that governors in 43 states have line-item veto authority.
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How to get this out...THE REPUBLICANS HAVE CONTROLLED THE ENTIRE GOVERNMENT FOR FOUR FREAKING YEARS!!!

IF ANYONE IS ABUSING SPENDING ON SPECIAL-INTEREST PROJECTS, IT'S REPUBLICANS, REPUBLICANS, AND MORE REPUBLICANS.

Wow, sucks to be my keyboard during the Bush years.

Let's face it, the only special projects that the Dems get are the small cumshaws the Repubs throw them to keep their mouths shut about the egregious theft perpetrated by Frist, Hassert & company, or to get the Dems to break party rank and vote for ludicrous conservative measures.

This is so much hog-wash posturing by Bush to try and appear like he actually understands fiscal responsibility. This after he's spent $2 trillion in Iraq, and after HIS party voted to raise the national debt limit to $9 trillion.

This after he has grown the government more than Clinton, sent spending through the roof, and wasted our surplus in a matter of months.

And worst of all, he's been cutting taxes for the rich with the zeal of Fred Phelps bashing gays.

And now he has the gall to claim that the country would have better control of its spending if he had more authority to cut measures?

Look, can you name a time when his Congress or his party has even sort of reigned him in? I can't. Sure, a few ran from the Social Security catastrophe he was pimping. But otherwise, his word is law. If he told Frist and Hassert to cut spending, you can bloody well believe that spending would be cut.

But he never has. Because Repubs LOVE spending when money they're the ones who spend it.

Just like Repubs love growing the government when they're the ones growing it, and just like Repubs LOVE judicial activists when they're judges are the ones twisting the law.

These people necessitate a stronger word than hypocrisy.