the $6 billion just passed for drought relief, despite the fact that the huge Farm Bill passed earlier this year is so large because it already had drought relief in it? Last May, Tom Daschel defended the Farm Bill on one of the Sunday shows (Russert's), saying it was so large because it had provisions for all of those annual "emergency" appropriates built in. If that's the case, then why (other than pandering to buy votes), did both sides of the aisle fall all over themselves to pass an additional $6 billion in spending? Notice that I blame both sides for this and other examples of reckless spending.