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Pelosi: Just Forget the Word 'Earmark'
Townhall.com ^
| June 13, 2007
| Amanda Carpenter
Posted on 06/13/2007 4:59:31 PM PDT by DCJeanGrey
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To: DCJeanGrey
Queen Hill seems to also be the “Queen of earmarks” - to the tune of > $150 million
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:01:22 PM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Thompson Time!")
To: DCJeanGrey
She said they should be called legislative directives instead.
Well....that makes it all better now. /sarc
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:01:26 PM PDT
by
P-40
(Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
To: DCJeanGrey
Another word I’d like to see banned is aardvark.
To: DCJeanGrey
In a Tuesday press conference about appropriation bills, Pelosi said, Why dont we leave here today forgetting the word earmark? She said they should be called legislative directives instead. Maybe we can call them Undocumented Spending.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:05:37 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
To: P-40
Yup! That’s a liberal for you. If you call a midget “vertically challenged” you’ve solved the problem without having to get into all that nasty science and math stuff.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:06:43 PM PDT
by
Philistone
(Your existence as a non-believer offends the Prophet(MPBUH).)
To: DCJeanGrey
Pelosi said, Why dont we leave here today forgetting the word earmark? She said they should be called legislative directives instead.GrannyNanny has just dropped Congress' poll ratings another two or three points with this nonsense. She's well up in the running for the world's stupidest woman, despite heavy competition from many others in CA, including Boxer, Waters, and Lee.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:08:07 PM PDT
by
hsalaw
To: DCJeanGrey
This is like Jerry Brown calling laws “concepts”.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:09:57 PM PDT
by
headstamp
(Nothing lasts forever, Unless it does.)
To: DCJeanGrey
Republicans wont stand for it. Bovine excrement.
I wish I could believe it, but I can't.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:10:46 PM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: DCJeanGrey
This woman truly is an airhead.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:11:58 PM PDT
by
jazusamo
(http://warchronicle.com/TheyAreNotKillers/DefendOurMarines.htm)
To: DCJeanGrey
That’s it! That’s it! Semantics are our problem. Why, we’ll just banish that inconvenient word, earmark: Out. Out. Out, damned spot. It worked so well with abortion, murder some called it, but we decided it would be a choice. Much nicer word, don’t you agree? Not the least bit messy, who could argue with a choice.
And so, a word to the New York Times: Make it so,and we will all be happy everafter.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:13:50 PM PDT
by
centurion316
(Democrats - Supporting Al Qaida Worldwide)
To: DCJeanGrey
legislative directives
Amazing.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:14:54 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(Just call them legislative directives.)
To: DCJeanGrey
Yea, lets also not use the word Tax and call it what it really is,
it's a FEE ok? Call it a FEE.
Elitist hack..
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:17:33 PM PDT
by
MaxMax
(God Bless America)
To: Wheee The People
Let's just say from now on it's the..."e"-word.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:18:30 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: DCJeanGrey
This is legislative spending as opposed to executive spending, she said. And in the absence of legislative directives, you have appropriations bills that are totally dictated by the White House. She said legislative directives were a way for members to come together, sometimes in a bipartisan way, to have the Congress of the United States determine what is in the appropriations instead of just leaving it up to the White House.
No, no, no! Congress can determine what is spent. But the corruption of the spending-formerly-known-as-earmarks is that Congress determines where it is spent. If we need a new infectious disease research center, it shouldn't matter to Congress where it is. The problem is when Byrd decides that the fate of the nation depends on it being in West Virginia.
This is something the Republicans should fight on. It resonates with the public. It makes the Dems look both foolish and crooked simultaneously. And if they can be stopped for a year it could actually save some money thus pushing the "spending like drunken sailors" back to the Dems.
I have zero confidence on the Republicans finding either their spines or their balls and doing anything.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:22:17 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Parker v. DC: the best court decision of the year.)
To: DCJeanGrey
In a Tuesday press conference about appropriation bills, Pelosi said, Why dont we leave here today forgetting the word earmark? She said they should be called legislative directives instead.
She said this not behind closed doors. Nor did she say it with irony. She said it openly, and at a press conference! Obviously she believes--and on rational grounds--that the press are her allies if she so openly coaches them on their use of language.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:22:19 PM PDT
by
Asclepius
(protectionists would outsource our dignity and prosperity in return for illusory job security)
To: KarlInOhio
Yep, that’ll fix it.
Just think how silly the Republican Congress was to take the blame for not actually solving problems. The solution to all these problems was staring them in the face all along — just rename them and they no longer exist.
Pelosi is the Queen of Denial ... and it has nothing to do with Egypt.
And Wise is “too busy” to include them in the bill so they can be debated ? How is that even legal ??
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:23:13 PM PDT
by
Kellis91789
(Liberals aren't atheists. They worship government -- including human sacrifices.)
To: DCJeanGrey
I think they should be called “porkers”.
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:23:33 PM PDT
by
Mad_Tom_Rackham
(Elections have consequences.)
To: Kellis91789
Sorry. “Wise” should be “Obey from Wisc.”
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:24:14 PM PDT
by
Kellis91789
(Liberals aren't atheists. They worship government -- including human sacrifices.)
To: DCJeanGrey
She further suggested that the words Center of Personal Intestinal Cleansing replace the word ‘shithouse”.
It was pointed out to her that either way an earmark is an earmark and a shithouse is a shithouse. Creative application of colorants do not change the nature of the facility.
Creative use of verbiage do not alter the nature of scope of corruption and legislative decay wrought upon this country by laPelosi’s mis, mal and non FEASANCE WITHIN Pelsoi's administration of the congress.
Why,...there is a CULTURE OF CORRUPTION IN THE DEMOCRATIC CONGRESS. Shame!!!
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posted on
06/13/2007 5:29:13 PM PDT
by
Gideon T. Reader
(DEMOCRATS: Not quite American. PALESTINIANS: A proud history of mindless violence since 1964.)
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