I won't be changing my party affiliation to Libertarian... yet...

I have to say, I'm proud of the House Republicans today; which is something I've not been able to say for a while. Despite the popular new President, and the typical politician urge to be seen to be doing "something" every single House Republican voted against the Obama Generational Theft Act. Not only that 11 Democrats voted against it as well.

Unfortunately this Crap Sandwich of a bill still passed which still pisses me off no end. The Wall St Journal did an analysis and discovered that only 12 cents of every dollar of spending is directed towards actual economic stimulus... and they admit that they're being generous. The rest of the money is pure pork and government growth. There's even $600,000,000 in there so the government can buy new cars. Can you afford to buy a new car this year? No? Well the government can, with your money...

Oh, and no one seems to consider that the $825,000,000,000 will have to be financed by bonds. The CBO estimates that the interest on that borrowing will be over $300,000,000,000 bringing this spending binge to well over
$1,100,000,000,000.* Didn't we get into this economic mess because too many Americans bought more than they could afford by running up debt that they couldn't pay back?

Anyway the point of this post was that I'm oddly proud of my Republican party affiliation today. I consider myself to be Reaganite Republican: low taxes, small government. muscular foreign policy. To my great disappointment, since the Republican party retook the House and Senate in '02 the Republican have been the party of big government, maybe not as big as the Democrats, but still big. Maybe they've learned their lesson and are getting back to their roots... I doubt it, but maybe, just maybe, they are... If not, Libertarian Party here I come.

* I know I could and should write out "billion" and "trillion" but I find that those words have no real meaning after a while. We hear "trillion" so often it just becomes a word... it's so big, and beyond us, that it becomes meaningless. However, writing out $1,000,000,000,000 (trillion) gets you to pause and say, "holy crap that's a lot of freakin' zeros"... or something like that...