What are the 9000 ear marks that the Republicans are complaining about that seems to bring the party against the opposing party about?

Anyone have any ideas please?

i think but i could be wrong that there argueing over which party has more power and they have done so for years

I think perhaps it has something to do with how the tax payers money should be paid and they both don't agree on where or how it is spent on different programs perhaps??

I saw that one earmark is a program on how to keep flies out of cow stables. This program might go through.

great default pic smiless

as for keeping flies out of cow stables, why not just get lizards

funny! lol

I wish I could see those 9000 earmarks somehow to see what all the fuss is about.

if you find out share

http://www.earmarks.omb.gov/
The federal government actually lists them for you.

well there it is. Good work!

I saw that one is 200,000 for tattoo removal

and another 150,000 for renovation for a Idaho Theatre

This is interesting

Like I said before...

Pork is only bad when it's not served at your table.

If there's a measure of money devoted to keeping fly's out of cow stables I suppose it might be easy to look at that on the surface and declare it trivial.

Have you thought about what diseases fly's carry?

Perhaps there is value in research that might lessen or eliminate fly's in the barns where the meat and or dairy products that end up on your table are produced?

Oh...isn't there a difference between the stimulus bill and the proposed budget?

Speaking of budgets....I was glad to see Obama including war spending in this conversation instead of hiding war spending the way Shrub did in separate pieces of legislation.

I haven't looked at the proposed budget. How many earmarks are for/by republican legislators? I mean gosh...none of them ever tried to bring federal dollars to their local districts before right?

SOTU: Federal Earmarks Have Exploded Under Bush And GOP-Led Congress»
Bush said: “The people’s trust in their Government is undermined by congressional earmarks — special interest projects that are often snuck in at the last minute, without discussion or debate.”

FACT — BUSH HAS ENGAGED IN HIS OWN EARMARKING: In 2007, Bush stuffed approximately 580 earmarks worth $15.6 billion into his appropriation request for military construction and veterans affairs. Bush’s earmarks included $24 million for the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program and “$8.9 million for the Points of Light foundation, a pet project started by his father, former President George H.W. Bush.” [Washington Examiner, 11/15/07]

FACT — BUSH HAS REPEATEDLY SIGNED PORK-LADEN BILLS INTO LAW: According to the Congressional Research Service, there were 997 earmarks in the Fiscal 2000 defense appropriation bill. By the Fiscal 2005 law that Bush signed into law, there were 2506 earmarks, “more than two and half times the number contained the Fiscal 2000 bill.” In the bill funding the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, the number of earmarks grew from 291 in 2000 to 3,014 in 2005. [Lilly, 1/28/08]

FACT — EARMARKS EXPLODED UNDER THE GOP-CONTROLLED CONGRESS: When Republicans took over Congress in 1994, there were 4,000 earmarks on appropriations bills. At the end of the 109th Congress in 2005, there were 15,000. [Washington Post, 1/25/06; The Gavel, 1/28/08]

FACT — CURRENT 110TH CONGRESS HAS CUT EARMARKS IN HALF: “As promised when they took control of Congress,” in 2007, “House Democratic leaders cut in half from last year the value of earmarks in the bill, as they did in the other 11 agency


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/28/sotu-federal-earmarks-have-exploded-under-bush-and-gop-led-congress/

FACT — EARMARKS EXPLODED UNDER THE GOP-CONTROLLED CONGRESS: When Republicans took over Congress in 1994, there were 4,000 earmarks on appropriations bills. At the end of the 109th Congress in 2005, there were 15,000. [Washington Post, 1/25/06; The Gavel, 1/28/08]

FACT — EARMARKS EXPLODED UNDER THE GOP-CONTROLLED CONGRESS: When Republicans took over Congress in 1994, there were 4,000 earmarks on appropriations bills. At the end of the 109th Congress in 2005, there were 15,000. [Washington Post, 1/25/06; The Gavel, 1/28/08]

FACT — BUSH HAS REPEATEDLY SIGNED PORK-LADEN BILLS INTO LAW: According to the Congressional Research Service, there were 997 earmarks in the Fiscal 2000 defense appropriation bill. By the Fiscal 2005 law that Bush signed into law, there were 2506 earmarks, “more than two and half times the number contained the Fiscal 2000 bill.” In the bill funding the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, the number of earmarks grew from 291 in 2000 to 3,014 in 2005. [Lilly, 1/28/08]


Over half the earmarks in the stimulus bill were placed there by Republicans during the debating of the bill.

FACT — BUSH HAS REPEATEDLY SIGNED PORK-LADEN BILLS INTO LAW: According to the Congressional Research Service, there were 997 earmarks in the Fiscal 2000 defense appropriation bill. By the Fiscal 2005 law that Bush signed into law, there were 2506 earmarks, “more than two and half times the number contained the Fiscal 2000 bill.” In the bill funding the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Education, the number of earmarks grew from 291 in 2000 to 3,014 in 2005. [Lilly, 1/28/08]


Over half the earmarks in the stimulus bill were placed there by Republicans during the debating of the bill.

So in the end this whole fuss is nothing more then a Republican cry to work against the oppossing party wanting them to fail in the Obama's years as President.

McCain recieved 46% of the vote.
The way I see it, that amounts to the 28% who still supported Bush and the 18% of Americans that wouldnt vote for a black man.

actually, if you want get technical, this whole war on terror is the most expensive earmark yet.