The out-of-control spending spree in Washington is facing its first real obstacle in the Senate.

The past few months have been dominated by party line votes that saw liberals leveraging their respective majorities to pass monstrous tax burdens on future generations to satiate their appetite for your money. However, their coalition appears to be cracking.

The $410 billion omnibus spending bill that increases government spending by 8 percent, in the face of the economic hardship that many Americans are facing, is having a hard time passing the upper chamber.
Senator Evan Bayh (D-IN)
Conservative members like Sen. Tom Coburn are opposing it because of the 8,500 earmarks. Moderate members like Sens. John McCain, Arlen Specter and Lamar Alexander, are opposing it because Majority Leader Reid and Speaker Pelosi won’t allow any amendments. Even liberal members like Sens. Russ Feingold, Claire McCaskill and Evan Bayh have come out against the bill, rejecting the offensive largess of government.

The fight is joined, with Reid, Pelosi and Obama on one side and commonsense officials from across the political spectrum united on the other.

And believe it or out, all this for a bill that only funds the government until the end of September. Then we have to take up President Obama’s budget.