Earmarks
In Reality, Palin Loves Earmarks
Saturday, September 6th, 2008The McCain campaign boasts of her pork-cutting, but up close it looks more like a trim. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. She boasts of rejecting plans to build the notorious “Bridge to Nowhere,” a $389 [...]
Obama Gets It Right On Earmarks
Wednesday, March 12th, 2008“We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress’s seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or nonprofit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists.�
Bush Is All Talk, No Action On Earmarks
Wednesday, December 26th, 2007“I am disappointed in the way the Congress compiled this legislation, including abandoning the goal I set early this year to reduce the number and cost of earmarks by half. Instead, the Congress dropped into the bill nearly 9,800 earmarks that total more than $10 billion. These projects are not funded through a merit-based [...]
Bush Gets It Right On Earmarks
Thursday, December 20th, 2007“The congressional leaders ran in the last election on a promise that they would curb earmarks. And they made some progress and there’s more transparency in the process. But they have not made enough progress.”
Democrats Will Approve More War Funding
Friday, December 14th, 2007Despite Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s protestations, the Democrats approval of additional funding for our military operations in Iraq makes it their war as well. In exchange, they will allow the budgets of several domestic programs to be slashed. The Democratic Party officially has neither a spine nor principles and will deserve the beating at [...]
A New Exhibit A For Term Limits - Charlie Rangel
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Robert Byrd has been bumped down to Exhibit B for this classic abuse of taxpayer dollars.
Congressman Charles Rangel swung a $2-million earmark to create a public service career center in his New York district. The name that would adorn the center? Mr. Rangel’s own. When a House critic objected to using taxpayers’ money for his [...]