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My two Texas senators, Hutchison and Cornyn, have well-demonstrated their conservative credentials by voting to override president Bush’s veto of the massive, pork-for-everyone (but me), $20+ BILLION Water Projects bill.  OK…to be fair, Senator Cornyn didn’t vote to override.  Not to be seen by the folks back home as not returning “their fair share”, he simply sat-out the vote…whimp.

I guess they didn’t read the entire email that I sent them several days ago, in which I instructed them to vote “No” to the override.  It looks like they only read the part in which I sarcastically asked them to include $2000 for me so that I could pay the bill for having the plumbing leak in my house fixed — after all…it’s a water project, too.  (It was in the foundation, and insurance doesn’t pay for repairs — just for repairing any resulting damage.)  I have yet to see the check from passage of this bill…I suppose that “It’s in the mail.”

Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has decided that the US Senate ought to investigate whether six TV Ministries are spending donors’ money in ways that meet his expectations.  Since Republicans, of which he is one, like to harken back to The Gipper and ask, “WWRD — What Would Regan Do?” — I will ask, too.  Having thus asked, I will also answer and say that Ronaldus Maximus, if he were still with us…God rest his soul, would say something like, “Well…did they give the money at the barrel of a gun?  Are they happy giving?  Then…I don’t see why we don’t just leave them alone to serve God as they see fit.  If they decide that their money is no longer being used as God would want, they are free to donate elsewhere.  Frankly, I give the American people more credit for being able to run their own lives than Sen. Gassley does.  He ought to get back to doing The People’s business that they elected him to do – instead of dictating to them how they should spend their Sunday mornings.”