Here we go! Just as I predicted(along with about a million other conservatives), the Democrats are already pork barrelling bills just as they derided the Republicans for doing since 1996 and and breaking the promise the Dems made not to do it themselves while stumping for the last elections. Their fight against the "culture of corruption" and the promises to make "real changes" that would send America in a new direction and the "first hundred hour" plan have all left their old opponents caked with mud from the slingfest, but have done little else. The new war spending bill is laden with pork ranging from subsidies to Wisconsin dairy owners to relief for the California Strawberry industry. It is absolutely pathetic. They call for our withdrawl from Iraq(and you watch, eventually from the war on terror) unless they can squeeze a few hundred million out of a bill that would expand and extend that very war.

It is politics as usual so I am not syrprised, I just like to point out these things to those who actually believed the Dems would do anything they promised to do or that they would do anything that would make a significant difference in Americas direction, especially if it was going to keep them from dropping some jack into their constituencies, no matter who actually suffered for it, which in this case, will be our fighting forces. Where is all the outrage at pulling pork out of a bill that may keep vital material flowing to our fighters? Does anyone other than me remember the fingerpointing and namecalling that went on over the last few years about why our guys were short on body and Hummer armor? Well, I KNOW where that shortage will come from this time and it isn't the Republicans demanding anything. This will be in the lap of the left and I will be interested to see if any of the usual anti-porkers have anything negative to say about where this pork is going and why it is going there. My money is on "NO".

I wasn't impressed with the Republicans job of handling many of the issues I feel strongly about, but I even less impressed with the left beacuse of all their

saintly talk of making changes and so vehemently denying they were a part of the problems of the last twelve years. Politicians don't get re-elected by fighting for what they believe in, they get re-elected by spreading the wealth around their districts and voter bases and selling out to special interests. It has always been that way and it's not likely to change anytime soon and maybe, just maybe, Americans are starting to wise up to that. Maybe so much so that in the next election, we will see a boatload of new faces elected and say goodbye to the old school, back door political hacks. I can only hope.

Before the elections, I said that no matter who won, nothing was going to change for the better, but most likely for the worst, and it looks as if I am being proven correct in that assessment. Timelines, milk, cheese, strawberries, cow farts and all manner of pork are being attatched to the funding of the war, which only proves that the left are more interested in the status quo than the soldiers that thiss bill was designed to help. You want to pork out a bill, fine, it happens all the time, but let's pork out a Welfare spending bill or some domestic subsidy bill and leave the saftey, security supplying of our guys and gals and the theatre of war alone!

Again, there is nothing unusual about this situation, I am just tired of the left bashing the right for engaging in the same games they play. Double standards are rampant in Washington and that is just a fact, but that doesn't mean I have to like it or that I am not going to speak my piece about it. I predict that the right will get the house back in the next elections because so many swallowed the left's yakkity-yak hook, line and sinker and are already severely disillusioned with where things are going, which is the same direction they were already going...right into the crapper! I knew this was going to happen, but apparently many Americans didn't. So..I am betting another lunch that the voters displeasure with the left's smoke and mirrors show when the house comes up for bid next time.