Blunt Admission: "It Was Standard Practice Not To Pay For Things"

On the long list of things Roy Blunt would rather not talk about in 2010, his leadership in passing George Bush's Medicare Part D legislation is probably near the top of the list.  The tactics employed to just get the bill out of the House are disgusting enough, and then there's the fact that Blunt and his fellow GOP leaders didn't even bother trying to pay for the huge expansion in federal spending. 

Unexpectedly, Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) spoke this weekend about the fiscal leadership (or lack thereof) from Bush, Tom Delay, Blunt and the rest of the gang.

You can read more about Blunt's leadership in passing the prescription drug benefit here, and read more about the outrageous hypocrisy of supporters of that legislation who complain about the fiscal responsibility of the current health care reform bills (which actually reduce the deficit).