Spending cuts?

Spending cuts or "hide the baloney pony?"

“   While he was alive, Rep. John P. Murtha was a prince of pork, directing hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars back to his southwestern Pennsylvania district. But Wednesday, the House took the first step to turn off the spigot, voting overwhelmingly to defund the National Drug Intelligence Center that Murtha had the government build in his hometown. And that was just the beginning.

“   In the first freewheeling spending debate the House has held in years, Democrats and Republicans teamed up to take on entrenched defense interests and to rewrite a GOP 2011 spending bill to cut about $800 million from NASA and from homeland security research and development, and send the savings to fund local police and firefighters. ” STOP the music.  I watched C-Span yesterday as a series of goofy sounding amendments to the spending bill went to a vote.  In every instance I expected them to fail.  In every instance they passed. Here's the vote that caused me to turn it off in disgust. Rep. Weiner ((D-NY) Amendment to Cut NASA Budget by $298 Million Passes  A New York Democrat voting to cut spending?  In fact, the budget was not cut one cent in this amendment.   The C-Span title was "Amendment to transfer $298M from NASA to the Attorney General's Community policing blah-blah-blah.    Sounds like the same Three-card Monte hustle to me.  Anyone? As far as Murtha goes, I would expect that the Navy ship being built, and named for him, be renamed.  Anyone?