Buyer’s Remorse at the New York Times?
Earlier, Bill Dupray detailed a list of prominent Democrat leaders who may be influenced to vote against President Obama’s budget plan:
So here is the list of Democrat Senators who may possibly be influenced with calls and emails.
Evan Byah (Indiana), Mary Landrieu (Louisiana), Mark Warner (Virginia), Bill Nelson (Florida), Amy Klobuchar (Minnesota), Mark Pryor (Arkansas), Jeanne Shaheen (New Hampshire), Robert P. Casey Jr. (Pennsylvania), and Blanche L. Lincoln (Arkansas), Claire McCaskill (Missouri), Mark Begich (Alaska), as well as Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.). Senator Jon Tester (Montana) is not officially in the group, but the article details his discomfort with this spending free-for-all.
Add another surprising name to the list: New York Times leftist columnist Maureen Dowd.
Dowd actually sided with Sen. John McCain and ripped Obama, saying “he did not ask Congress to sacrifice and make hard choices; he let it do a lot of frivolous redecorating in its budget.” Funny, when McCain was talking about how he had a career of fighting wasteful spending during the campaign, and Obama was simply talking about how he would do the same, Dowd invariably sided with Obama. Now you wonder if she thinks she made the wrong choice.
Before the Senate resoundingly defeated a McCain amendment on Tuesday that would have shorn 9,000 earmarks worth $7.7 billion from the $410 billion spending bill, the Arizona senator twittered lists of offensive bipartisan pork..
Dowd proceeds to list a dozen examples and then continues, comparing McCain to Obama…