Quote:
Originally Posted by Anxiety
As a Republican, I feel betrayed by GWB and the Congresses of the 2000s for pulling this fiscal crap. We were the party of fiscal responsibility, and for all of his faults, you'd never see leadership under Newt pull this pork spending spree crap.
|
Au contraire. This "fiscal crap" and "pork spending spree" started under Gingrich. Gingrich opened the Departments of Labor/HHS/Education Appropriations bill, the largest domestic spending bill, to earmarking for the first time. Same to the Foreign Operations Appropriations bill, although that one is comparatively tiny.
Granted, wild earmarking was refined into an art form under subsequent leadership, but the trend was gleefully started by none other than Newton Leroy Gingrich.