Posted on 05/30/2008 6:53:41 PM PDT by weef
A number of U.S. congressmen and their families — including former Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert — have personally profited from congressional earmarks they slipped into federal legislation, a FOX News documentary reveals.
The documentary, “Porked: Earmarks for Profit,” hosted by Chris Wallace, premieres Sat., May 31, at 8 p.m. EDT on FOX News Channel.
Budget earmarks became a national scandal — and a national joke — after some wasteful schemes made headlines recently: a $223 million “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska, a $500,000 teapot museum in North Carolina, a $10 million extension to Coconut Road in Florida.
Many lawmakers earmark taxpayer money for projects supported by contributors to their campaigns.
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Of course they are. Why else would they spend $1m dollars to get a job paying $100k?
Welcome to the club, I've been there for awhile. No matter who they are when they come to Washington, politics corrupts everybody and everything it touchs.
Please tell me they are not All Republicans!
I am damned near suicidal at this point with McQueeg and all!
as long as the crooks can rake us over the coals in the name of the "children" or "health care" or the "teachers" or any of the commonly promoted crisises of the day, we are sitting ducks....
Of course they all, “fauxnews” is biased right? Ooops.
2 GOP, 1 Dem, “The FOX News documentary team also investigated the case of Pennsylvania Democratic congressman Paul Kanjorski, who earmarked millions of taxpayer dollars for a company run by his family.”
I’m sure CNN will have a special report on Murtha’s corruption coming up next.
Throw every incumbent out who has participated in earmarks. ALL OF THEM, Republican or Democrat. That would definitely include John Murtha. He would be tops on the list.
WHAT ABOUT Harry Reid, his 4 sons and Real Estate Deals?
What about Allan Mollahan? What about William Jefferson D. Louisiana and the National Guard helicopter with 90K in his freezer?
You wanna talk pending investigations?
Maxine Waters hubby..
Come on!
Not to mention Nancy Pelosi’s hubby.
Maybe they skipped Murtha and his good buddy Mollohan (D - WV) because both of them have been at it for so long and for such BIG BUCKS, nobody could consider it news anymore. (30+ yrs. through Republican and Democrat administrations, and still going strong...)
And DiFi’s.. then there is always Barry’s buddy Rezco.
And Fineswine’s husband as well.
I hope they mention Obama’s wifes salary getting doubled after her hospital got a million in earmarks...
Term limits!!!!!!!!
And take the politics out of the Justice Dept.....
I bet these names won’t be in the faux documentary!
If we can track terrorists money flow...we can surely do so for 500 or so congresscritters...
Where was Chris Wallace on that one??? I'd venture to guess that the money through those deals is bigger than this story.
Why wasn't Obama part of the story, when he earmarked a grant that got his wife a tripling of her salary?
The “Keating”Group.
What about them? They are Democrats. I know they are crooks. Forget them. If there is a crooked Republican, I want him out now! They tarnish the whole party.
Yep, and it's time for indictments and prosecution, now lessee, where can we find some honest "lawmakers" with guts to do that?
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