Whiny Representative Paul Broun (R)

[He did, however, provide an interesting link to the supposed “Pork” in the latest bill that he accuses President Obama of signing all that exorbitant spending into law as if that is what the President wanted included in the first place. What a silly little man. http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/upload/porktable.html]

13 March 2009

Mr. Broun,

Thank you for your informative newsletter regarding the "pork" included in the Stimulus Bill. Like you, it is distressing to me that excess spending finds its way into important legislation. Moreover, it is nearly impossible to tell exactly what Congress is voting for in the end. In order to support the integral parts of a bill, it has become necessary to accept all the trash thrown in the mix. This makes it terribly complicated for the voters when we try to understand the merits of our politicians. For example, did you actually and enthusiastically vote FOR the infamous Bridge to Nowhere? Or was that just part of the trash included in a bill regarding something really important that demanded your support?

It would make great sense to me for the President to be given line-item veto power so that he could ferret out the ridiculous inclusions while at the same time getting the business of the country done in a proper fiscal fashion. Unfortunately, he does not have this latitude. So, instead of berating the President for conducting business with the very same shackles you share as you do your voting as if he is choosing to do so, work to create a better way of doing the peoples’ business, such as introducing a “line-item veto” bill. Your critical rhetoric is just more of the same political shell-game that is misleading subterfuge. Please get real and get busy.

Sincerely,

Katherine