From NRO’s The Corner:
Senate Republican leaders have lashed out at the 1,924-page omnibus spending bill introduced today, and chided Majority Leader Harry Reid’s announcement that the Senate would stay in session “no matter how long it takes” to address the remainder of the Democratic agenda.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) called the bill “inappropriate” and said the situation was “eerily reminiscent of last year,” when Democrats introduced a 2,700-page bill spending late in the session that few members had seen, much less had time to review. “This is exactly what the American people said on November 2 they did not want us to do,” he said. “This bill should not go forward.”…
Indeed, it should not – it is criminal of Democrats to even try such a thing. There is no way anyone can familiarize themselves with the provisions of this bill prior to passage. Because of this, it is clearly designed for corrupt purposes – an honest bill would be no more than a couple dozen pages bare-bones laying out what spending will happen. 2,000 pages means you’ve buried the truth under massive verbiage in the hope that no one will figure it out until after passage.
The GOP should stand firm against this monstrosity.
UPDATE: McCain is tweeting some of the pork in the bill.
UPDATE II: Allahpundit notes the growing GOP revolt over this bill.
UPDATE III: Two things here – Democrats are trying to shove through whatever they can before the lose the ability to do anything, at all and they are probably thinking 1995 – hoping that if we oppose this and government shuts down, we’ll get blamed for it. I say – go for it: I don’t think the American people will be fooled in 2010 on this issue as they were in 1995, before the rise of the New Media allowed the truth to get out fast and wide.
UPDATE IV: One bit of great news in the bill is that we Nevadans will now get help with our coastal salmon issue…each year, after all, we Nevadans head to the border with California to watch the Pacific salmon leap over the Sierra Nevada mountains on their way to our great State…and the really cool thing is that they come in wrapped in plastic and ready to eat. Cool, huh?
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