A Kentucky Ping.
...for those interested. :D
We have met the enemy...and they is us.....POGO comic strip.
Posted on 11/14/2010 4:10:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Of course, Obama is in favor of getting rid of earmarks. It gives the executives more control over where federal money is spent.
‘Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.’ - Abraham Lincoln
Well, vote him out in 2014, when he is up for reelection. Twenty years is long enough
If this was such a phony issue, then why do they want to keep it?
While I’d love to see earmarks as currently used abolished and banned, I’ve often toyed with the idea that the NEA should be replaced with a system of arts-funding through earmarks: get rid of the NEA, take the amount it hands out in grants and divide it by 1070 (we still save the bureaucrats’ salaries and benefits, cost of office space and the like), give each congressman and senator two of those shares, one of which has to fund art in his or her district or state, and one of which has to fund the arts outside of his or her state.
It would make arts funding into a serious political issue. Some nitwit funds Maplethorpe or his ilk with his share, if he’s not the congressman whose district includes the Castro, there goes his reelection chances!
It would be fun. It would get art people want to see funded. Though seriously, just abolishing the NEA period would be fine, too.
...for those interested. :D
We have met the enemy...and they is us.....POGO comic strip.
Thirty Years...he was first elected in '84, he "skunked" Dee Huddleson.(sp?) 
with a Pack of Hunting Hounds, It seems Dee forgot about
whom he was representing in Washington D.C.
MUCH LIKE (Washington Insider) MITCH IS DOING NOW!
They play so many convoluted games up there that no normal person could understand it. (They think of normal people as unsophisticated and unwashed.)
you pretty much nailed it...the money isnt as much of an issue as the ‘payback’ [though when the checking account is empty, every dollar counts]...that and wholesale selling out o the countrys economy by billions, for a couple hundred grand for a community center to buy votes back home...
Earmarks (pork) have always been bad, especially in the case of Ted Stevens, but John McCain has never earmarked anything. I loath McCain, but I have to give the devil his due on that one.
We have four more years to notch McConnell, Skink, but as you know, he has a permanent place on my $hit list (amnesty). Even Hal Rogers came out against earmarks the other day, but I don’t believe him for a minute. If either one thinks TEA parties are going anywhere in two or four years, they have another think coming.
“Earmarks (pork) have always been bad, especially in the case of Ted Stevens, but John McCain has never earmarked anything. I loath McCain, but I have to give the devil his due on that one.”
Always is a strong word - but regardless, it is the operative word today. Sen. Inhofe, and all other Republicans, may want to make a case for earmarks - and they’re welcome to do it - but, please, NOT THIS SESSION. At least wait until 2013, and then only under VERY STRICT rules, if at all.
26 years to be exact
The rest of us are tired of paying for the bacon...
Freepers here on the forum are way to quick to call others RINOs, without really knowing what a RINO is. And just to explain a RINO is someone who votes most of the time with the rats, not occasionally, like when it is a no partisan vote
You are SOOOOOOO right. When people start calling Inhofe a RINO, then I know they’re trolls - or they are so misinformed as to be laughable. Graham yes, Snowe yes, lots of others in the middle (i.e., ACU ~90), Inhofe - no friggen way.
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