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Saturday, January 06, 2007

GOP members oppose PAYGO

Washington's GOP members of the U.S. House are against paying as you go.
"I will vote against it because it raises taxes," Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash., said in a telephone interview "The easiest fix is always to raise taxes."
No, the easiest fix is to make stuff up. Democrats are taking away the credit cards, son. Somebody has to be responsible.

If Reichert and the rest of them want to be against PAYGO, so much the better in 2008. What happened to the kinds of Republicans who were always walking around talking about balancing their checkbooks? They would huff and puff angrily about how regular Americans have to balance their checkbooks and so should the government. Now they're like the proverbial drunken sailor.

It's a good thing Reichert is so independent.
That is Reichert's strength. He is a not an ideologue like U.S. Rep. Doc Hastings, the Pasco Republican who does the bidding of House Republican leadership.
Um, well, maybe not so much:
It's the second day of the new Congress, and already Democrats are making it easier to raise taxes," Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., said in a statement.
Of course, nobody has actually proven that the debt and deficit exist, they're just theories that should be investigated.

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