Pelosi, Murtha lead Democrats to more pork spending

You gotta love this article "Congress Forgets Ban on Pet Projects" by Associated Press writer Andrew Taylor on House Democrats rejecting a call to end pork spending.

Taylor writes:

Get out the trough, it's feeding time. Congress has decided that an election year with recession written all over it is not the time to be giving up those job-producing "pork" projects bemoaned by both parties' presidential candidates.

As lawmakers returned Monday from a two-week spring break, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quietly shelved the idea of a one-year moratorium on so-called earmarks, the $18 billion in pet projects that lawmakers sent to their home states this year.

House Democrats like John Murtha, D-Pa., a longtime Pelosi ally who got the "porker of the year" award from Citizens Against Government Waste, a Washington-based watchdog group, weighed in as well. If the Senate won't give up its pork, they argued, why should the House?

So much for promises to get spending under control. Democrats have turned out to be just as big liars as the Republicans were when they controlled Congress.

I'm still waiting to hear from any Democrats out there what they accomplished by electing Democratic majorities in both houses of Congress.

Gas prices are at record high levels. Food prices are getting out of control. The U.S. is still in Iraq. The economy is headed into recession. More Americans are losing jobs and houses. Ethics scandals continue. All of this has happened under Democratic leadership.

And you want to elect a Democratic president, too? Higher taxes, bigger government, a weaker military?

Are Democrats trying to push this country over the abyss?

Nothing has changed under the Democrats over the past 15 months. In fact, things have gotten worse.