Ben Johnson,FloydReports.com
I’m sure it wasn’t their intention,but big-spending Democrats proved this blog right today. Senator Harry Reid and his fellow liberals have unveiled a massive spend-fest and power-grab on Capitol Hill. They introduced this $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill during the lame duck session of Congress,which would allow the same representatives the voters just ran out of town on a rail to make all spending decisions for the year 2011. It shows the Left desperate to cling to power and shut down the voters’will at all costs —just as this author has forecast.
The bill,which is nearly-2,000-page long,legislates $1.1 trillion in “discretionary spending.” The bill includes $1.25 billion funding for ObamaCare, a key provision of which a federal judge has declared unconstitutional and which the voters clearly repudiated in November. The bill is so irresponsible that it spends more money than Barack Obama requested on some programs.
This budget-buster includes at least $8 billion in earmarks for special interests back home. According to Politico,among the almost 6,600 pet projects Democrats shoehorned into the bill is $8 million for the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate. (The Heritage Foundation reports the amount as $500,000; however,one dollar is too much to commemorate the Senate’s most notorious AAA member.) Heritage reports that just a few of its other earmarks include such vital measures as….