Earmarks

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• Anybody want to read the monstrosity? Lets play, "Find the Earmarks"

  
  LES FEMMES - THE TRUTH — Authority: 432
  Heres the bill, H.R. 3962 , all 1,990 pages of it. The question is -- how many bribes were built into it to buy votes? Lets play, "Find the Earmarks!" Heres an interesting untraceable goody for selected Democratic supporters and voters will never be the wiser: One such earmark suddenly appeared in H.R. 3962 in ...
  1 day ago

• You Missed It: Post-off-off-election Edition

  
  SeriouslyGuys — Authority: 438
  Bryan McBournie missed You Missed It this week to visit Glenn Beck as he recovers from his removed appendix. I tried to tell him that it was simple outpatient surgery, but he insisted, carrying flowers and a special embroidered pillow with him. He also muttered a lot, but that could have been the booze talking. ...
  3 days ago

• Sen. Lieberman Wants Answers About Alternate Engine – And So Does CAGW

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 131
  Ever since Citizens Against Government Waste released its 2009 Congressional Pig Book on April 14, 2009, funding for the Joint Strike Fighter alternate engine has come under immense scrutiny.  CAGW even has a web page  dedicated to the engine.  CAGW has identified $771 million in pork barrel earmarks for the ...
  3 days ago

• That’s How They Lost Power In The First Place!

  
  Tai-Chi Policy — Authority: 442
  Guys, I know Democrats are way more corrupt , but indulging in your own earmarking is how Republicans lost power in the first place . Posted in Politics Tagged: Congress, Corruption, Democrats, Earmarks, Pork, Republicans
  4 days ago

• Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year revealed (Part-IV)

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 726
  Washington, Nov.5 (ANI): The Politico web site has spoken to a dozen political insiders and pulled together a list of President Barack Obama’s ten best, and ten worst, moves of the year.Ten Worst: 6. No earmarks? Well, maybe just a few . . .billion Obama campaigned hard against earmarks, but in March, he signed [...]
  4 days ago

• Hartley Endorses Nodler for Congress

  
  KY3 Political Notebook — Authority: 542
  HARTLEY ALSO REPRESENTS JOPLIN BUSINESS Congressman Roy Blunts former chief of staff Gregg Hartley endorsed State Sen. Gary Nodler for Congress via Twitter late Tuesday night. The backing from the politically connected Hartley comes at a time when some Republicans were privately speculating about the long-term ...
  5 days ago

• Thanks, Mitch, for bringing home the bacon!

  
  Barefoot and Progressive — Authority: 527
  The scope of the problem: As the recession drives more people into the Kentucky AIDS Drug Assistance Program, federal funding has stagnated and state funding has disappeared. Currently, 1,277 people are enrolled in the program. Nearly 100 people are on a waiting list that started in June. "We have 20 to 30 people ...
  6 days ago

• An insider’s primer (or rant) on pork

  
  Bitch. Ph.D. — Authority: 528
  Work, as usual, is kicking my ass. Tomorrow I’m supposed to take the Metra train out to the end of the Milwaukee West line to pitch a conservative GOP congressman’s staffer on why they should include my organization on his list of projects for the FY11 fiscal year. Itll be my third such meeting in the past month - ...
  6 days ago

• USA Today points out Virginia Foxxs hypocrisy

  
  BlueNC - The people's think tank — Authority: 509
  Heres a tiny little item from USA Today that points out that self-proclaimed Uber-Conservative, so-called anti-earmark, defender of the Pocketbook, tea-bagging Crusader Virginia Foxx (R-NC5) was instrumental is handing out federal funds for a nice little pet project that favored her local conglomerate Lowes, who just ...
  6 days ago

• Hoffman wants to slash funds to NY-23s largest employer

  
  Daily Kos — Authority: 805
  Just a reminder -- when the good folks in New Yorks 23rd District go to the polls tomorrow, they may want to consider this before pulling the lever for Doug Hoffman (TB-NY): To obtain the endorsement, and campaign cash, of the conservative Club for Growth, Mr. Hoffman signed a statement promising not to request ...
  1 week ago

• Defense Appropriators Under Investigation

  
  The Swine Line — Authority: 131
  The Washington Post confirmed today what most of us had already thought, when you are on an appropriations committee that gets to spend hundreds of billions of dollars, there is bound to be some shenanigans.  According to the Washington Post : Nearly half the members of a powerful House subcommittee in control of ...
  1 week ago

• Buried on page 1431: Potemkin tort reform

  
  Overlawyered — Authority: 647
  Commentary’s Jennifer Rubin notices : A friend points out a little nugget of absurdity and political mendacity in the Pelosi health-care bill. Remember Obama’s effort to try a “test” for tort reform? (We don’t actually need a test, since it has worked to lower medical malpractice coverage and help ...
  1 week ago

• Pork Report October 29,2009: National Science Foundation Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  National Science Foundation studies gossip and workplace politics in elementary school $1.47 million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a 3-D virtual recreation of the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair National Science Foundation funds self-help for Members of Congress $1.57 million stimulus ...
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• Texas Congressman Funnels Government Money To Oil Interests

  
  That's My Congress — Authority: 503
  Congressman Joe Barton managed to create an earmark of a million dollars of government spending to support fossil fuel research and development that aims to convince Americans that the dirtiest, most inefficient sources of fossil fuel energy, such as oil shale, oil sands, coal, and industrial sludges, are somehow ...
  1 week ago

• No Abortion Funding In Health Care: Yet ANOTHER Liberal Lie Exposed

  
  Start Thinking Right — Authority: 476
  Barack Obama’s Health and Human Services Secretary – just as one of numerous examples – assured the public that there was no public funding for abortion in the Democrats’ health care plan.  From McClatchy : WASHINGTON — Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius pledged Sunday that President ...
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• Debt and the Credit Crisis

  
  Rich Credit Debt Loan — Authority: 547
  The last recession that our country experienced was, in truth, a mild one. The stock market and many corporate profits began to tank, but consumer spending seemed to dance merrily on through the recession without as much as a scratch. Consumer spending has long been the major engine driving the entire United States ...
  1 week ago

• Pork Report October 26, 2009: Decorative Street Lights Edition

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  New Jersey spending federal stimulus funds to keep an eye out for graffiti National Science Foundation researchers study the cure for low approval ratings of members of Congress “The groundbreaking study … found that online deliberative forums are likely to sway swing voters in favor of the lawmaker ...
  2 weeks ago

• Ron Paul, a hypocrite on the health care public option?

  
  Liberty Maven Liberty Maven: For Liberty, One Individual At A Time — Authority: 538
  Ron Paul is a hypocrite on health care along with 54 other Republicans, according to House Democrat Anthony Weiner (NY). WASHINGTON, DC—A new study by Representative Anthony Weiner (D – Queens & Brooklyn), member of the Health Subcommittee and Co-Chair of the Caucus on the Middle Class, revealed that 151 ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Profitability of Lobbying

  
  Big Government — Authority: 793
  In a surprising development, the Washington Post discovers that Congressmen make promises of funding in exchange for votes : “It takes a while for most start-up companies to gain the confidence of a U.S. congressman and the promise of federal funds. But last year, a small Illinois company accomplished its goal ...
  2 weeks ago

• Republicans Ready to Embrace Earmark Fight?

  
  S E N A T U S — Authority: 521
  Are Senate Republicans ready to fully embrace the runaway spending line-of-attack by ditching earmark requests?  Probably not.  But reaction to a recent “tirade” by Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK) may signal that they are moving in that direction, POLITICO reports. But at a closed-door meeting of GOP senators this ...
  2 weeks ago

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