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Ron Paul defends earmarks, says anti-pork McCain is just grandstanding
LA TImes ^ | 3/11/09 | Andrew Malcom

Posted on 03/11/2009 6:56:34 PM PDT by pissant

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GOPers are sure gettin snippy these days. Fun to watch anyway.
1 posted on 03/11/2009 6:56:35 PM PDT by pissant
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To: pissant

I like Ron Paul, but that’s a hyper technicality.


2 posted on 03/11/2009 6:58:17 PM PDT by Darren McCarty (Obama = Jimmy Carter II)
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To: pissant
GOP is funny. The only reason why I registered GOP is to primary Specter. After that, back to Independent.
3 posted on 03/11/2009 7:01:08 PM PDT by WakeUpAndVote (FReeping. It's good old fashion fun for the family!)
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To: lormand; Allegra; ejonesie22; Petronski

pingzers


4 posted on 03/11/2009 7:02:34 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: pissant

“Mr. Constitution”


5 posted on 03/11/2009 7:04:04 PM PDT by THX 1138
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To: pissant

Ron Paul is a phony baloney tin-foiling wearing freak.


6 posted on 03/11/2009 7:05:24 PM PDT by big'ol_freeper ("From hell's heart I stab at thee... I spit my last breath at thee." ~ Khan Noonien Singh)
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To: THX 1138; rabscuttle
“Mr. Constitution”

Looks like Rabscuttle's boy not only is a moron on foreign policy but a hypocrite on spending as well.

And it must be "constitutional", right?

7 posted on 03/11/2009 7:07:30 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: pissant

I’m in the middle of the road on the earmarks thing.

Earmarks are a symptom of a greater problem. Sometimes things that need getting done can’t get the money because the opposition doesn’t want to hear about it. On the other hand, we shouldn’t have to pay to study the homosexual mating habits of the east texas dung beetle.

Too much raiding and skimming going on in DC across the board.


8 posted on 03/11/2009 7:09:16 PM PDT by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: big'ol_freeper

I call him Rhu Paul. >;0)


9 posted on 03/11/2009 7:13:39 PM PDT by DarthVader (Liberal Democrats are the party of EVIL whose time of judgment has come.)
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To: THX 1138

Why shouldn’t anyone ask for the money the federal government takes in taxes back? Whose money is it? The federal government’s or the citizens?

You people pretend that once the money is looted from the taxpayer’s pocket, they’d better never ask for it to be returned. Is that right? that means you think that all money belongs to the federal government, or in the case of modern history, the federal reserve, to be spent propping up the failed globalist policies of the last 30 years. You think that Obama needs taxpayer money to ‘save the world’ economic system which is tantamount to treason against the Constitution.

All congressmen should ask for the district money back. Let citizens decide where it’s spent, not the federal reserve, the G20, the numerous ‘councils’ and ‘czars’ the white house has created.


10 posted on 03/11/2009 7:14:30 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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To: mnehring

Interesting how some are just getting a clue that L Ron Paul’s middle name is Oink and a RINO delux.
I wish hr would make the final move over to his Third Party loons.

His type, along with the “Pures” and Far Left are
doing their best to divide the Republicans.
They are Obama’s best friend.


11 posted on 03/11/2009 7:16:08 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin - Jindal 2012)
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To: Lakeshark
You all must be freedom and liberty hating RINOs who are pawns of the Zionist agenda. If Dr. Paul says earmarks are important and Constitutional, then it is true. Dr. Paul found that wild shrimp and ferris wheels are written right there in the Constitution. You take the "W" from the second sentence in Article 2 Section 8, the "I" from the third sentence, the "L" from Hamilton's signature.. and so on... Dr. Paul is right and you all are just haters.. when you deliver ten billion babies and memorize the Constitution, only then will you understand the brilliant purity of his holiness Lord Paul...

do I really need a /sarc?

12 posted on 03/11/2009 7:16:40 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: pissant

He’s a nutty little elf as well as a hypocrite. He knows a particular bill will pass and votes against it, symbolically, but is always there to wallow in the booty.


13 posted on 03/11/2009 7:17:29 PM PDT by WildcatClan (Iam fimus mos ledo ventus apparatus)
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To: hedgetrimmer

Oh my gosh, I understand now, it is so simple.. the federal government is the redistributer in chief.. oh wow.. collectivism is good.. I never saw it that way.. take from the taxpayers and give it to pet projects.. thanks to you and Dr. Paul, I finally see the perfection in collectivism....

/sarc


14 posted on 03/11/2009 7:18:19 PM PDT by mnehring
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To: hedgetrimmer
Uh, how many of those earmarks that Paul got are for items specifically permitted for the federal government in the Constitution?

Thus, the hypocrite tag...

15 posted on 03/11/2009 7:18:39 PM PDT by THX 1138
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To: mnehring
You didn't. You had me laughing at the first sentence......

So you're a RINO too?

16 posted on 03/11/2009 7:19:42 PM PDT by Lakeshark (Thank a member of the US armed forces for their sacrifice)
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To: pissant
"Ron Paul.....has more earmarks in the pork-laden $410-billion spending bill than any other Republican."

Ron Paul is a Fraud and a Hypocrite and his followers are the type of people that followed Jim Jones to an early departure.
17 posted on 03/11/2009 7:21:31 PM PDT by utahson
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To: mnehring
Ron Paul...

Sheesh...

Let the lunacy begin again...

18 posted on 03/11/2009 7:25:34 PM PDT by ejonesie22 (Stupidity has an expiration date 1-20-2013 *(Thanks Nana))
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To: Darren McCarty

Ron Paul is the libertarian evil clone of Dennis Kucinich.

Both are crazy as Charles Manson without the weapons.


19 posted on 03/11/2009 7:26:17 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: pissant

This federal earmarking of local pet projects is such total crap.

The ONLY things the central government should be doing are major things of NATIONAL significance, that have greater than local impact, and that cannot be done at the state level. Things like the national defense and major items of national infrastructure like the interstate highway system.

If the people of Texas don’t care enough about some local waterfront development project to pay for it themselves, why the holy hell should I pay for it out of my paycheck from Massachusetts?

Likewise, I think it’s preposterous for people in Texas to pay for the Boston Big Dig mess.

Perhaps if we weren’t filtering all our money through a massive central bureaucracy only have a small percentage returned to us, we could actually afford to pay for the local work we want directly, and far more efficiently.

This federal government is totally out of control. Its budget needs to be slashed by 75% across the board, and taxes reduced accordingly.


20 posted on 03/11/2009 7:27:50 PM PDT by Zeddicus
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