It’s kind of heartwarming to see Republican Congressional Representatives calling the pork-glutted Democrats to account, both in terms of the effectiveness of their legislation as well as their rather lax standards of ethics. There were times during the last Congress that I believed the Republican Party had been taken over by unprincipled political hacks whose only interest was to stay in power. That’s probably the reason why government spending increased so dramatically, as those Republicans desperately sought to buy votes with taxpayers’ money.
