House Leadership Slams Senate...
May 2, 2006
| 10:24 AM
House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Maj. Leader John Boehner are putting the screws to their own party's alleged profligacy in a blistering statement issued jointly this a.m.
"The Senate emergency spending bill represents a huge spending spree, but the big losers will be the American taxpayers stuck with the tab. President Bush requested $92 billion for the War on Terror and some hurricane spending. The House used fiscal restraint and stayed within the President's request for true emergency spending. We support the President's threat to veto the wayward spending bill. The American people don't deserve a special interest shopping cart disguised as a supplemental."
Note that the statement doesn't blame Dems for obstruction. It blames the Senate.
Said a GOP aide in the House: "We're serious about showing the American public that this Congress WILL control spending."
Though Sen. Maj. Leader Bill Frist says he has enough support to prevent his Senate colleagues from overriding a threatened presidential veto, the fact remains that his chamber passed a supplemental that exceeded what Bush requested by $15B.
Will voters get this jujitsu? Or will they blame all Republicans regardless of chamber?
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