Members of the Democrat’s Progressive Caucus are proposing the diversion of $60 billion dollars to “humanitarian assistance, social programs, energy conservation, homeland security and deficit reduction.”

Isn’t that great! I applaud the sentiment. The over-the-top spending by this congress has been shameful. It’s about time someone did something about the pork.

Wait. What’s that? There’s not one word about reducing pork? Not a thought towards cutting waste? Nothing that addresses fighting fraud? The “common sense budget” is as bloated as the one we have now, they’re just redirecting the spending? Where’s the money to come from?

Where else: the military budget.

So much for Raptors or armored Humvees. We don’t need them in the liberal world.

And where would we spend it?

The large amount allocated for humanitarian assistance could be used in such places as the Darfur region of Sudan, Woolsey said. Pelosi and other House Democrats recently met with the Save Darfur Coalition, a group of religious and humanitarian groups.

They’re setting aside more for Darfur than the next largest cause: modernizing American schools.

Yeah, that’ll resonate with the heartland in an election year. Who’s in charge over there?

Update: Conservative Republicans (I’m glad to hear that there are some left) are going to release their own budget proposal, only this one really tries to cut the budget.

Senior aides say the conservatives’ plan would wring about $350 billion from Medicare, Medicaid and other social programs and save $300 billion partly through a major reorganization of the Education, Commerce and Energy Departments.

“We are putting our money where our mouth is,” said one of the officials, who would discuss the proposal only without being identified because it was still being prepared for release Wednesday by leaders of the Republican Study Committee.

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