Can McCain support something loaded with pork and maintain any credibility at all?
The more I read and hear about this, the more convinced I become that this whole financial crisis was a set-up. Obama’s rich friends invest in a down stock market and get rich in the process, the federal government owns most of the private property in this country, and Obama gets elected.
Win-Win for the socialist communists behind the ONe.
NO.
He promised to cut pork...
He promised to name, names...
He has an opportunity to walk the walk right now in front of him.
He's a liberal. Just a less smelly one than the RAT's candidate. No conservatives on the top of either ticket. Does Keating 5 ring a bell?
This is politics...It seems pork and earmarks are not technically the same things:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/bg1266.cfm
“Governments have long used the power to tax and spend to favor certain constituencies with special benefits over and above what a system based on a formula or need would provide. In a democracy, elected officials generally have well-defined, geographic-specific electoral bases, so such benefits tend to be location-specific and highly visible, usually taking the form of infrastructure spending on such projects as courthouses, highways, airports, and government office buildings. Traditionally referred to as “pork,” this spending often manifests itself as a specific line item, or “earmark.” Earmarks appear most commonly, but not exclusively, in appropriations bills passed by Congress and signed into law by the President.”