[xcamel]

Queen Hill seems to also be the “Queen of earmarks” - to the tune of > $150 million

[P-40]

She said they should be called “legislative directives” instead.

Well....that makes it all better now. /sarc

[Wheee The People]

Another word I’d like to see banned is aardvark.

[KarlInOhio]

In a Tuesday press conference about appropriation bills, Pelosi said, “Why don’t we leave here today forgetting the word earmark?” She said they should be called “legislative directives” instead.

Maybe we can call them Undocumented Spending.

[hsalaw]

Pelosi said, “Why don’t 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.

[headstamp]

This is like Jerry Brown calling laws “concepts”.

[Izzy Dunne]

Republicans won’t stand for it.

Bovine excrement.

I wish I could believe it, but I can't.

[jazusamo]

This woman truly is an airhead.

[centurion316]

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.

[Jet Jaguar]

“legislative directives”

Amazing.

[MaxMax]

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..

[KarlInOhio]

“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.

[Asclepius]

In a Tuesday press conference about appropriation bills, Pelosi said, “Why don’t 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.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

I think they should be called “porkers”.

[Gideon T. Reader]

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!!!

[sgtbono2002]

A pig is a pig. You can call it anything you like but its still a pig.

Earmarks legislative Directives, Bribes graft pay-offs, Its all the same thing

Being a Senator is a license to steal.
And its our money they are stealing.
The whole bunch belong in a jail somewhere not being treated as Royalty and having their butts kissed daily.

[Brakeman]

members cannot challenge the earmarks before voting on the legislation

When were they ever challenged, prior to this?

[television is just wrong]

Homeland security budget should be .01. They do NOTHING. They only inconvenience citizens to make it appear as if they are doing something.

[Blood of Tyrants]

Calling a pig a rose doesn’t make it smell any better.

[CDB]

Get your red-hot euphemisms for sale at:

Pelosi Galore’s “Euphemisms Are Us” warehouse on Capitol Hill in DC. Just look for the dome.