This is my first diary so please don't be cruel. I was thinking about the situation in DC and trying to figure out a way to use the fact that the GOP is in control of every thing to our advantage. That is when I remembered a little news blip from earlier this year; I did a little google to refresh my memory, here is the article from THE STATE, Columbia SC' #1 paper, that I am working from.
http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/8776059.htm
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It seems that while the Gop is in control of the Governers Mansion and the State house the three bodies can not get along.
In May Gov. Sanford vetoed 106 items in the proposed budget claiming the $5.5 million he trimed to be pork barrel items. In response the House over turned 105 of them in what is sited as "a short amount of time", my own memory serves to say less than 45 min. is the acurate amount of time they voted on 106 vetos. I would not have believed that possible and remember these are all dixie high order Repugs.
In response to his vetos being so quickly put to bed, Gov. Sanford the next day made an appearance at the door of the House chambers carrying two pigs he named Pork and Barrel. To protest using the money for local projects in house members home towns when the State has an outstanding, "unconstitutional" $155 million debt.
Since then realations have not improved.
How can we instigate this kind of infighting on the national level? The Gop may have the power but thier lead is slim and maybe we can keep them from working effectively to get anything done.
"GOT PORK?"