Does nobody care what the Democrats are proposing in their budget resolution? Thank goodness Sen. Judd Gregg (R-NH), ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, does:
This five-year budget blueprint, a partisan plan designed and passed by congressional Democrats with no input from Republicans, will weigh down the economy with the largest tax increase in U.S. history, hundreds of billions in new spending, and billions of dollars in new debt.
Had enough? There’s more.
The budget also is unrestrained in its embrace of new spending on Washington programs. Wasting no time, this budget in fiscal 2008 will spend $82 billion, or 9 percent more than fiscal 2007 levels. In total, discretionary spending jumps $205 billion over the president’s request during the next five years, while entitlement spending grows unchecked by $402 billion during the same period.
Here’s what I think. I think the Democrats are heading into a wood-chipper. They are so eager to get their hands on the lovely lolly, the spending dollars, and hand them out to their special interests that they haven’t stopped to think about what will happen if they actually get what they want.
That’s because, at the critical turning points in economic policy in the past generation, Democrats were AWOL.
The job of Republicans and conservatives is to make sure that when the economy heads south the voters get to understand who did it. Good and hard.
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