I just got a healthy dose of laughter after reading Lowell Greenbaum's March 19 letter ("Bush leaving dismal fiscal legacy").

He rants against, who else, President Bush and those evil Republicans. This time, he cites fiscal irresponsibility. This is the ultimate case of the pot calling the kettle black. Greenbaum seems blissful to ignore the obvious fact that Congress, not the president, controls spending in our nation, and Greenbaum's "compassionate" Democratic Party has controlled Congress for more than a year now. This blatant fact explains why legislation to halt or at least limit congressional earmarks recently went down in defeat. And, just so you won't run out of things to worry about, bills requiring a balanced budget by a certain time frame are not even brought up for debate anymore. Congress simply doesn't like you, the taxpayers, telling them how they can spend your money!

Just to show Lowell Greenbaum that this Republican can be realistic, I blame both parties for Congress spending like drunken sailors on a Cinderella liberty. The difference is that I know this. Lowell Greenbaum obviously has only nibbled on the reality sandwich that the rest of us have to consume each day. To quote Scripture, "There is none so blind as he who will not see." It's high time Greenbaum and the rest of the liberals took the blindfolds off and looked at their own hypocritical party!

Charles Kimbrough, Sylvania