Posted on 11/14/2010 4:10:27 AM PST by Kaslin
Bite the bullet, elites, and follow the lead of the true Conservatives. (Oh, the MILLIONS in earmarks don’t amount to much, you say?) To the average citizen, a MILLION is a lot, and he is sick of your cavalier attitude about it. Your park barrell, vote-buying attitude no longer works with the tax-paying citizen. The rest of ‘em (welfare queens) are gonna vote Democrat anyway without fail.
At best, McConnell and Inhofe by their actions, may be just like the spoiled little brat “breaking in” a new baby sitter. He will push whatever envelope he can until he finds out where that envelope ends.
So are they just trying to find out just how serious the Tea Parties and the public in genereal comes down on this issue before making the kind of changes that come natural to everyday adults?
At their own peril, 9 Republican Senators are up for re-election in 12 and most of those on that list are RINO establishment types. They had better be well aware the list is active with an already announced Tea Party type primary challenger for Olympia Snowe and I beleive alerady another one I don’t recall at the moment.
Add to the mix that 22 Democrats are up as well, do they really want to deal with a Tea Party movement already in high gear coming in for a pit stop for new skins and a fresh load of fuel?
Being a member of the movement, its impact will be far more reaching than it was in 10 because unlike the stories questioning whether the movement will live on, we are seeing even more new folks calling and coming to see what it is all about. The agendas for the next cycle are already on the table ready for action list items once the holidays have passed and the pit stop is over.
Screw them. No earmarks and no funding. Cut the damn spending. Jeez what have we got to do? Go up there with Tar and Feathers?
Actually they can not only pee on it but REDUCE the debt limit so no further borrowing can take place.. Thats only ONE of the things the House can do..
UNLESS.... the federal government is already lost to...
...THE SHADOW GOVERNMENT...
Nice read Twinkie....
I think banning earmarks are an important step in cleaning up this mess.
As I understand it.....
They are of course used to augment various legislation providing special funding or permissions to lawmakers pet projects..securing their vote on a new draft even if they dont agree with it?....
Is it also the method by which “favors” are accounted..over time? Like an official record of favors done...like a casino chip...to be used to buy other favors at a later time?
As such “since they cant remember accurately exactly when or how they sold out on this issue or that”...these earmarks are very important to the culture of corruption in our gov.?
Anyone please correct me if Im wrong...or define this interpretation further...Im interested in this.
Thanks
I read this morning that Obama is now in favor of getting rid of earmarks. Makes me want to rethink my position on the issue...
CALLING ALL TEA PARTY PATRIOTS: It’s time to set our sights on McConnell and Inhofe. Neither are up for reelection in 2012. So, what do we need to do to get McConnell dethroned from any GOP leadership roll in the Senate?
Just like the White House issues a trial baloon in support of extending the existing tax structure then Obama himself saying he is against it? Yea, right. Never go against logic no matter who it is that says they are for it. When the rubber meets the road, he will nuance another position on it in seven different ways, in essence voting Present again.
If they are not Tea Party vote them out.
Considering Inhofe’s voting record and the fact that he’s a great guy, we’re pretty much out of Senators once we call him a RINO - we have to think a bit more about what’s he’s getting at.
His point is that people closer to the action should have some say on how federal money is spent...not Obama.
My answer is fine - and you can thank TED STEVENS and JOHN MCCAIN for giving earmarks their reputation. Game over Inhofe, you are probably right, but let it go...you are a great Senator - but this is not the time for Republicans to be defending earmarks.
Simple, primary out all RINOs on the list next cycle. Keep chipping away at the beast as eventually it will be smaller than we are. Pick your targets folks. Our local Tea Party already has.
Republican 2012 incumbent Senators
Jon Kyl of Arizona
Richard Lugar of Indiana
Olympia Snowe of Maine
Scott Brown of Massachusetts
Roger Wicker of Mississippi
John Ensign of Nevada
Bob Corker of Tennessee
Kay Bailey Hutchison of Texas
Orrin Hatch of Utah
John Barrasso of Wyoming
The Earmark flap is both right and misunderstood. Both sides of the Republican discussion are correct.
It will be resolved by ending earmarks and instituting new procedure that pretty much allows a congress critter to tag appropriated funds for a specific project on his turf.
The dissension is overblown and an attempt to divide and destroy
+100.
This country's budget is a disaster and the new majority is promising to barely nibble at the solution. Even if there was an ironclad pledge to shut a whole agency every year, it would barely scratch the surface of what is needed. A fully 10% of the US GDP is government spending on borrowed money, and the GOP leadership is attacking, what, .01% of it?
There will be no leadership from politicians to greatly shrink the size of the federal behemoth. There is going to have to be a bond crisis to wake the electorate up. What this election did was to seek out a different credit counsellor, not to actually pay the bills. The voters want some way to stiff the creditors and still have access to their loans. Most Republicans are just playing along, and stringing things out to their own personal advantages. Hardly anything has changed, sad to say.
The actual amount of money spent on earmarks, aka Pork Barrel, is minuscule compared to the total spending ..but..
It’s symbolic of frivolous wasteful spending.
Like the neighbor who is out of work, collectors beating on their door and they go out and buy a 60”LED Tv.
How many times have we heard, ‘$500,000 for the mating habits of earwigs’, or ‘ millions for the bridge to nowhere’.
I just checked out John Murtha airport in Johnstown, PA. His favorite ‘earmark’. Any pictures I’ve seen of the terminal depicted it as empty of passengers.
United flies 4 arrivals/day and the same number departures. Yet it’s a first class facility, paid for by guess who.
The fact sheets at the homepage try to defend the airport’s subsidy by pointing out their subsidy is less than that of Ely, NV’s airport.
Nevada...wonder how they got such a large earmark. Hmmm
Then they will be defeated.
You are so right. I understand they are closer to the situation. I also know that they can vote NO on a bill if it isn’t specific as to intent. It will be more work as everything will have to be extremely fine tuned before it is brought to vote, but that should be business as usual anyway. Riders and earmarks (same thing?) have been identified as the beginning of taking control of spending. We must succeed on this to prove how serious we are!
These guys will never give up earmarks willingly. Half of them run on earmarks. They tell the folks back home that their opponent will never bring home the bacon like they can. Getting rid of earmarks is like getting gum off the bottom of your shoe.
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