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Honest Question: What Is 'Porculus'?
2/12/2009 | whereisreagan?

Posted on 02/12/2009 11:18:42 AM PST by whereisreagan?

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Andrew Jackson and the following Jacksonian Democrats campaigned on opposition to general appropriations bills that provided funding for river and bridge improvements. In the days of slavery, the plantation owner would at times distribute salt pork, which would create a great rush to the barrel that contained it. As a slur, the same behavior became attibuted to politicians, who in passing general appropriations slavishly dug into the pork barel to take as much as they could.

http://books.google.com/books?id=IVEJAAAAIAAJ&pg=RA1-PA694&lpg=RA1-PA694&dq=%22pork+barrel%22+history+municipal&source=web&ots=sgmpb91mez&sig=tUk9Fw7xYsCVmjnl5ShuYQVXAyQ&hl=en&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=4&ct=result#PRA1-PA694,M1


41 posted on 02/12/2009 11:40:04 AM PST by frithguild (Can I drill your head now?)
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To: lewisglad

Those were his pre-congressional photos..


42 posted on 02/12/2009 11:41:20 AM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Joiseydude

OMG.........LMAO double barrel


43 posted on 02/12/2009 11:42:38 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: SpinnerWebb

FDR: “WE HAVE NOTHING TO FEAR BUT PORKULUS HIMSELF.”


44 posted on 02/12/2009 11:43:13 AM PST by Blind Eye Jones
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To: lefty-lie-spy

Notice that this whereisreagan did not answer a perfectly honest question?

This makes me suspicious of whereisreagan. When you ask questions, wereisreagan is nowhere to be found.


45 posted on 02/12/2009 11:45:13 AM PST by jonrick46
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To: Flycatcher

and aardappel means potato!


46 posted on 02/12/2009 11:45:55 AM PST by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: RichInOC
Don't I know your cousin, Biggus Dickus - Monty Python
47 posted on 02/12/2009 11:46:15 AM PST by jwparkerjr (God Bless America!)
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To: whereisreagan?

Here is my post on this subject:

Rush was the first to use the word “porkulus” to describe Obama’s bill. He used it on his radio show for the first time on Tuesday, January 27, 2009. Cantor was on his show the next day, and Rush wrote his article for the WSJ the day after that. See the time line below:

Rush: Pearl of Wisdom: “If you look at the details of what’s in this porkulus plan, very little of it is stimulating. It’s just pork. It’s the Democrats paying back unions and the people that got ‘em elected. There’s $4.19b for ‘neighborhood stabilization.’ That means voter fraud. That’s ACORN.” Tue, 27 Jan 2009

Congressman Eric Cantor (R-VA) calls to discuss the Obama Porkulus bill. It was just last month that Obama promised that this bill wouldn’t be full of pork. (Rush 24/7 Members: Listen Here) Wed, 28 Jan 2009

“My Bipartisan Stimulus”. ~ by Rush Limbauagh
The Wall Streed Journal. January 29,2009. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123318906638926749.html

24 posted on Tuesday, February 10, 2009 8:30:19 PM by Matchett-PI
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180782/posts?page=24#24

In this thread:
Google News: 271 hits for Porkulus-—Eleven in last 24 hours-—Dems, Liberals OUTED!
Google News ^ | February 7 2009 | Google News Page
Posted on Saturday, February 07, 2009 11:14:02 PM by Syncro
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2180782/posts


48 posted on 02/12/2009 11:46:19 AM PST by Matchett-PI (Obama fully intends to tear down our Constitution. So no, I do not want Obama to succeed.)
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To: Joiseydude

I had to counteract the amount of Teddy on the thread. :)


49 posted on 02/12/2009 11:46:47 AM PST by lewisglad
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well whereisreagan, I hope we helped


50 posted on 02/12/2009 11:47:08 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: whereisreagan?
A good check on this is Citizens Against Government Waste.

They have a pig pook every year.

51 posted on 02/12/2009 11:48:59 AM PST by Loud Mime (Stop the Clown-Car Stimulus!)
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To: Joiseydude

OMG! That’s just bad....but I do like the hat.


52 posted on 02/12/2009 11:49:17 AM PST by azishot (I just joined the NRA.)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Who is this guy (congressman )


53 posted on 02/12/2009 11:49:18 AM PST by 4Speed
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To: Doogle

LMBO! We are all so helpful.


54 posted on 02/12/2009 11:49:50 AM PST by dforest
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To: indylindy

:)


55 posted on 02/12/2009 11:50:25 AM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Dr. Zzyzx
and aardappel means potato!

You say potato but I say potahto.

(Should we call the whole thing off?)

56 posted on 02/12/2009 11:54:07 AM PST by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: 4Speed
That "Jabba the Hutt" lookalike is Congressthing Jerrold Nadler ('Rat-NY).

He looks porcine even in pictures on his own official website:

He seems about twice the size of Steny Hoyer ... and Hoyer isn't exactly anorexic.

57 posted on 02/12/2009 11:54:56 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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58 posted on 02/12/2009 11:55:45 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: whereisreagan?

Like most other horror stories expect...SON OF PORKULUS. Comingsoon to a neighborhood near you!


59 posted on 02/12/2009 12:00:46 PM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: ArrogantBustard

Good one!


60 posted on 02/12/2009 12:05:51 PM PST by ex-snook ("But above all things, truth beareth away the victory.")
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