[mnehring]

Let's all bask in the hypocrisy of Ron Paul's Pork Projects

What is the difference between Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel again?

[Petronski]

What is the difference between Ron Paul and Chuck Hagel again?

Hagel can afford Kool-aid?

[John Farson]

Paul voted against all those requests. Earmarks apportion money that has already been appropriated.

You will not find a more fiscally conservative candidate in the race.

[Wallace T.]

There is a bit of hypocrisy among those who condemn the pork barrel spending of, say, John Murtha or Denny Hastert, yet defend that of Ron Paul. I don’t think that Congressman Paul’s projects are particularly bad: highways, mass transit, and waterways make up most of the earmarks. However, the Constitution does not grant the Federal government the authority to buy buses or dredge ship channels, certainly not from a strict constructionist viewpoint, which Paul claims in other matters. Paul is less of a Constitutional purist than he claims to be.