The view off my front porch this morning:
Nice, but this is way better...
Good Bye!!
to the $1.3 trillion spending bill, at least for now. It was the usual huge, pork-filled kind of bill, generated by the old-school we-will-spend-your-money-to-keep-ourselves-in-office kind of thinking, that lead to...
It means that the revolt against big government that so impacted this year's elections was and is real and meaningful. Whomever thought on Capital Hill ~ whether it was Harry Reid or Mitch McConnell ~ that we weren't paying attention was wrong. The Christian Science Monitor agrees.
Of course, keeping an eye on career politicians to make sure they haven't slipped some over-reaching, expensive whatever into the next bill that comes along is like making sure your two-year-old doesn't pinch his baby sister as soon as you turn your back.
The newly elected Representatives had better pack their big boy pants and be ready for battle, including the one (hopefully) over rewriting of the spending bill. I'm hoping this is what C-Span looks like beginning in January:
We've got plenty of help keeping an a watch on the 2011 Congress: Washington Watch follows bills from start to finish, including all the dirty details; Taxpayers for Common Sense is a middle-of-the-road organization that wants more transparency when the government spends our money; Taxpayers Against Earmarks breaks down earmarks state-by-state, very useful for keeping track of one's own represetative; and, of course, the Cato Institute's Downsizing Government site offersthe well-researched policy and institutional information necessary for understanding the intentions of politicians and all things government.
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