16 Sep 2005
G.O.P. Split Over Big Plans for Storm Spending

This will be a big part of the real price we'll all pay for the Federal Government's bungling response to Hurricane Katrina: a guilty inability on the part of Congress to say "No!" to any rebuilding scheme, no matter how insane or idiotic.

We, as a nation, simply cannot afford $62 billion for Katrina relief, $90 billion for Iraq and $140 billion in tax cuts. But I guarantee that this Congress will try - and end up foisting the bill on our grandchildren.

The drive to pour billions of federal dollars into the Gulf Coast is widening a fissure among Republicans over fiscal policy.

(link) [New York Times]

00:00 /Politics | 0 comments | permanent link