Her column this morning is titled The $1 Trillion Question. She starts by telling us that she thinks we ought to develop a position on the Omnibus Spending Bill that just passed, And tells us
That’s the appropriations thing Congress just passed. You missed it, right? You were focused on the football playoffs or the Oscar nominations. Speaking of the Oscars, did you notice that this year there were people debating whether anybody got stiffed in the Best Song category? Really, if we can know about Best Song, we can have an opinion about the appropriations bill.
Plus, it’s $1.1 trillion. One of the rules of good citizenship is to know how you feel about everything that costs more than a trillion dollars.
Duh. Yes.
And she manages to get some digs in along the way, especially at Rand Paul and Marsha Blackburn.
But what clinched it for me was the final two paragraphs:
In the Senate, the two major money committees, Appropriations and Budget, are now led by women: Barbara Mikulski and Patty Murray. This is not true in the House, where, as I have noted before, the only committee led by a woman is the one in charge of housekeeping.
Anyhow, this is the first time in three years that Congress has actually managed to pass both budget and appropriations bills. Maybe women are just better at getting along. Or maybe the secret is that Mikulski is a former social worker and Murray used to teach preschool.
Perhaps you would see those two paragraphs in the pundit round-up, but just in case you didn't, I thought they alone justified my doing this diary.
Peace.