[mnehring]

OMG, I've heard that before, but it is just as funny every time.. Paul's earmarks are special, they are there but they don't increase the budget. I guess you've never heard of baseline budgeting or the congressional budget cycle. Future budgets are calculated using the previous year's budget as a baseline. Any unappropriated funds are generally not budgeted in. Earmarking continues the cycle of increased baselines.

But, what is funnier is the other excuse you make, he votes against it. IF Paul's earmarks are somehow ‘different’ as you claim, than other congressmen and they have the magical power not to increase the budget, why does he vote against them? He claims he is passing on the budget request from his district and he is elected to represent his district, so, if they don't increase the budget and he is just following his voter's will in requesting them and (the other excuse) bringing the money out of Washington and back to his district, they why not vote for it?

You have been drinking the koolaid way to long. The propaganda and spin is really starting to just be funny.

[ejonesie22]

One, it is not the Kool Aide, unless the wacky weed has a new slang term attached to it I am not familiar with...

Two, beyond the earmark bit I still am laughing about the whole “Ron Paul passes on the wishes of those in his district he was elected to serve and then votes against it so he can look good to the nut jobs who support him nationally” bit be perfectly fine.

What a servant of the people he is...

Damn, just damn...