Pork...It's the New White House Meat

Looking at the billions of dollars in pork that were crammed into the "emergency" war funding bill, one realizes that things haven't CHANGEd at all in Washington D.C. For all of the talk about holding down spending and being more accountable, the Obama administration and the Democrat-led Congress are on a record-breaking spending binge. They're intoxicated by the power.

I knew it would be this way when Candidate Barack Obama basically mocked John McCain for wanting to ban earmarks. To politicians like Mr. Obama, a few billion dollars here and a few billion dollars there, doesn't really make a difference...especially not when you think in terms of spending TRILLIONS.

Look at what you're buying in a war funding bill.

• $1 billion "cash for clunkers" auto trade-in program
• $5 billion to help the International Monetary Fund (Yes, we're borrowing money from China to put money into the IMF. Brilliant)
• $7.7 billion to help fight swine flu