Posted on 06/09/2008 5:19:23 PM PDT by Dog Gone
Hey. Mission accomplished. But I can take comfort in the fact that as much as New Jersey sucks, I have one of the best congressmen out there, Mr. Scott Garrett. Google him. Condolences again about your boy Chris Peden.
Peden wasn’t really my boy. I don’t know very much about him except that he wasn’t named Ron Paul.
Is Ron Paul ever going to withdraw from the Presidential race?
Earmarks are NOT spending.
I don’t want Congressional earmarks to go away either. I’d much rather have Congress decide where the money gets spent, instead of the executive branch. Congresscritters who speak out against Congressional earmarks while voting FOR the spending bills are not committed to reducing federal spending.
If we were to elect 218 pro-earmark RP Republicans to the House and 51 in the Senate, earmarks would go away AND the federal budget would shrink dramatically.
This is one of the few things I’ve come to really disagree with Dr. Paul about. I’ve heard him give his reasoning for this stuff, but I just don’t support proposal of or voting for unConstitutional spending. I think if I had a chance to speak with him personally this would be one thing I would like to talk to him about-—to tell him that his supporters don’t just want him to vote no but also to refuse to propose any unConstitutional spending.
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