Who do you trust to cut taxes more?

Great article here from The Hill detailing exactly why you can't trust democrats with your money. Some juicy excerpts:

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has spent $16,000 on flowers since taking office, one reason why she spent 63 percent more in her high-profile inaugural year than her low-key predecessor (Rep. Dennis Hastert,R-Ill.) did last year.

By comparison:

(Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio) Boehner will be refunding more than $1 million to the treasury from the money he was allocated.

Pelosi (whom our emporary Congressrat Nick Lampson voted for) felt entitled to spend more of your money because of her "historic" election as the first woman speaker. (Ask yourself: Can we really afford another "historic" election of a freespending liberal woman in 2008?)

The increase from Hastert to Pelosi was driven largely by a surge in travel (to meet with known terrorists, for example) and a heavily fortified payroll. Pelosi has more people working for her. Hastert employed 35 people during the third quarter of last year. Pelosi, by contrast, had 51 people on her payroll during the same time period.

What else did Prissy Pelosi feel entitled to?

• A $10,000 contract to former Clinton White House speech-writer Heather Hurlburt to write the speech Pelosi delivered to the Israeli Knesset.
• Nearly $20,000 to Washington attorney Richard Meltzer to help with Pelosi’s transition.
• More than $2,400 to hire a makeup artist for the week of her swearing in. (Under fire, Pelosi later reimbursed the entire cost from her personal funds.)

When you look at the spending of the whole Republican conference, steering and policy operations to the democratic caucus, steering and policy operations, the dems are still spending like the proverbial drunken sailor.

Money is distributed evenly between the Republicans and democrats for those functions, and the party leaders decide how to allocate them.

Under that calculation, Republicans spent 18 percent less than they did last year while democrats’ spending rose 4 percent over last year. democrats, predictably, say that is not a legitimate comparison. Of course not.