Cause and Effect

Stolen from Balloon Juice and reprinted here in its entirety:

Cause

Like a retreating army, Republicans are tearing up railroad track and planting legislative land mines to make it harder for Democrats to govern when they take power in Congress next month.

Already, the Republican leadership has moved to saddle the new Democratic majority with responsibility for resolving $463 billion in spending bills for the fiscal year that began Oct. 1.

Effect

Democrats unveil massive spending bill

WASHINGTON - Democrats have unveiled a massive spending bill combining the budgets of 13 Cabinet agencies with increases in aid for lower-income college students, while cutting President Bush’s funding requests for foreign aid and closing military bases.

Jil says: Cool huh? Republicans leave behind a mess, and Democrats get blamed for it in the newspapers. This is a perfect example of why both Conservatives and Liberals alike cannot stand the mainstream media: Because of intellectually dishonest, lazy, and misleading articles like this.

I'll offer this extra bit of quote from the AP article just to emphasize Teh Stoopit:

The harshest criticism came from House Republicans, who complained that they were shut out of any chance to offer changes to the bill — and had barely any time to read it.

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UPDATE:

The AP headline and quotes have been changed by the Associated Press after they realized that the author, Andrew Taylor, was an idiot. Found a screen capture of the original story though, just to corroborate my story. (Thank you Americablog.)