{"id":233,"date":"2003-11-30T20:56:54","date_gmt":"2003-12-01T01:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wordpress\/2003\/11\/republicans_spending_like_druk\/"},"modified":"2003-11-30T20:56:54","modified_gmt":"2003-12-01T01:56:54","slug":"republicans_spending_like_druk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/republicans_spending_like_druk\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Spending Like &#8220;Druken Sailors&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator McCain <a href=\"http:\/\/apnews.myway.com\/article\/20031130\/D7V56CGG0.html\">nails it<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The numbers are astonishing,&#8221; McCain said on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221;<br \/>\n&#8220;Congress is now spending money like a drunken sailor,&#8221; said McCain, a former Navy officer, &#8220;and I&#8217;ve never known a sailor, drunk or sober, with the imagination that this Congress has.&#8221;<br \/>\nHe said growth of spending had been capped at 4 percent, but it was at least 8 percent higher. He said he will continue urging Bush to veto profligate spending bills. The president has not veto a single bill since he took office.<br \/>\n. . .<br \/>\nAn example, he said, is a massive energy bill, which also has been put aside until Congress reconvenes.<br \/>\n&#8220;The administration originally supported an energy bill that would cost about $8 billion. This one is up to $24 billion, and the administration is still saying it&#8217;s one of its highest priorities,&#8221; McCain said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know how you rationalize that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ha ha.  I don&#8217;t know how <i>they<\/i> rationalize it, but the explanation is simple&#8211;the energy bill got bloated with give-aways to campaign contributors and corporate cronies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/2003\/11\/republicans_spending_like_druk\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to Republicans Spending Like &#8220;Druken Sailors&#8221;\"><p>Senator McCain nails it: &#8220;The numbers are astonishing,&#8221; McCain said on &#8220;Fox News Sunday.&#8221; &#8220;Congress is now spending money like a drunken sailor,&#8221; said McCain, a former Navy officer, &#8220;and I&#8217;ve never known a sailor, drunk or sober, with the imagination that this Congress has.&#8221; He said growth of spending had been capped at 4 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-233","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"h-entry","8":"hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.brianarner.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}