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Wednesday, October 24, 2007
Silly Season on Spending for Sununu
Watch What I say, Not What I Do
To listen to him, Sen. John Sununu (R-NH) sounds as committed to cutting spending and the deficit as he ever has: "I think we managed the growth much more effectively in 2004 and 2005 than we had in 2001 to 2003... The fact is, liberals here in Washington want to grow the size of government at a much faster rate, at a higher rate than the Republican minority."
Then riddle me this: why has Sununu almost alone among his GOP colleagues in the Senate, voted in favor of every single one of the Democrats' spending bills this year, including the ones, such as the Labor-HHS bill, that President Bush has threatened to veto on account of "excessive levels of spending"?
Could it have anything to do with the fact that he is trailing in the polls in his re-election race in a state that suddenly went deep blue last year for the first time in a century?
Posted by Dana Chasin
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