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Gotta love it! While republicans and their pundits wag their fingers about evil democrats loving earmarks they are no strangers to earmarks themselves. Let's look at Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) who fights to remove earmarks from spending bill...except her own $152.9 million worth. That's okay right? From the good Senator: "I do think that earmarks are a legitimate role of Congress. I don't think that we should be earmarking things that do not have a national interest," the Republican senator said. "Can it be overdone? Yes. Should it be transparent? Yes. But that is the role of Congress, to determine how we spend money." Like I have said before, pork when it is served on your own table seems tasty doesn't it? Story at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/030609dnnatearmarks.3bf9fff.html |
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Ah but what new hogs are lining up at the money trough under the Democratic banner?
Dem, Republican, they both are greedy pork barrel pig farms! At least you keep up on where the money is going to some extent. It was high time to end these programs a long time ago but still the loop holes exist. |
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Gotta love it! While republicans and their pundits wag their fingers about evil democrats loving earmarks they are no strangers to earmarks themselves. Let's look at Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) who fights to remove earmarks from spending bill...except her own $152.9 million worth. That's okay right? From the good Senator: "I do think that earmarks are a legitimate role of Congress. I don't think that we should be earmarking things that do not have a national interest," the Republican senator said. "Can it be overdone? Yes. Should it be transparent? Yes. But that is the role of Congress, to determine how we spend money." Like I have said before, pork when it is served on your own table seems tasty doesn't it? Story at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/030609dnnatearmarks.3bf9fff.html ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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Gotta love it! While republicans and their pundits wag their fingers about evil democrats loving earmarks they are no strangers to earmarks themselves. Let's look at Texas Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R) who fights to remove earmarks from spending bill...except her own $152.9 million worth. That's okay right? From the good Senator: "I do think that earmarks are a legitimate role of Congress. I don't think that we should be earmarking things that do not have a national interest," the Republican senator said. "Can it be overdone? Yes. Should it be transparent? Yes. But that is the role of Congress, to determine how we spend money." Like I have said before, pork when it is served on your own table seems tasty doesn't it? Story at: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/030609dnnatearmarks.3bf9fff.html ![]() ![]() ![]() it's odd to me that people consider themselves democrat or republican when these party's views are so interchangeable in congress |
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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/ You're preaching to the Choir!!! |
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Are those facts from John Podestas Center For American Progress?
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Or are they facts from the Congressional Record posted on that site?
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It really doesn't matter that they come from an ex Clintonite that founded his little group with George Soros money.
What matters is that the reason Republicans were run out of office was because they were totally corrupted by power. Its hard to campaign on limited government spending when you are throwing money around like a drunken liberal. |
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