Posted on 06/24/2009 2:08:52 PM PDT by jazusamo
Congressman Jim McDermott has now explained what he was thinking when he sought to use taxpayer dollars to polish up The Rainier Club's windowsills.
He was thinking: Why aren't you making a grab for cash, too?
"This is not a ridiculous request," McDermott said. "Everybody in the 7th District has the right to make a request — the University of Washington, The Rainier Club, everybody."
Set aside for now the tone-deafness of comparing our largest public university, reeling from budget cuts, with a private social club (where choice subcommittee assignments include the likes of "Greeting and Hospitality" and "Single Malt Scotch.")
Let's also stipulate that the quarter-million dollars McDermott wants to fix the club's limestone sills is less than one-ten-millionth of the federal budget. That's barely the odor of bacon in Congress' annual serving of pork.
What bugs me is McDermott's shrug. Everybody does it. It's OK, line up at the federal trough. Rich, poor, private, public — it doesn't matter. We all go for the bailout. Why not you, too?
I wonder how we'll ever dig ourselves out of our financial hole if this is the attitude of the folks writing the budget.
I see on McDermott's list of suggested earmarks that The Rainier Club is not alone. Example: a request for $2.5 million from the Seattle office of a Norwegian company called Birdstep Technology. It makes software databases for mobile networks.
Birdstep has a proposal in to make the personal digital assistants used by firefighters and the U.S. military more secure. That sounds worthwhile. But what stopped me was the rationale this business submitted for why it needs U.S. taxpayer money now.
(Excerpt) Read more at seattletimes.nwsource.com ...
Prior threads:
McDermott backs $250,000 federal earmark for Seattle's elite Rainier Club
“Everybody in the 7th District has the right to make a request”.....
Of course, McNumbNuts!........It’s only taxpayer money you gigantic asshat!....
FYI: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime is a Maoist- revolutionary movement initiated and controlled by the Revolutionary Communist Party
(scroll down the list that appears to find the World Can't Wait organization --again, rwor.org is the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party) :
http://rwor.org/a/rwlink/links.htm
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From David Horowitz's
FrontpageMag.com /DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
Profile: World Can't Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime (WCW)
*Revolutionary communist movement that stages protests against the Bush administration
*Organizes college and high-school students
*Founded in June 2005 by Charles Clark Kissinger, a longtime leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=7213
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The RCP calls for the armed overthrow of the U.S. government...
From the website of the Revolutionary Communist Party (revcom.us or rwor.org) :
"Create Public Opinion, Seize Power: We are preparing minds and organizing forces for the time when there is a major crack in the system, whenever it comes and wherever it comes from: an opening that makes it possible to bring the future Revolutionary Army of the Proletariat (R.A.P.) into the field and wage a revolutionary armed struggle that actually has a chance of winning.
And we have said that building our party itself is the most important part of organizing forces for revolution. This is true now, and it is true looking forward to the creation of that future R.A.P. and the waging of that armed struggle.":
Have no idea but he sure does. It says a lot about the leftist voters in his district.
Voters in Seattle who love McDermott: Would you mind voting for someone else next time around? Because the rest of us are tired of this jerk being inflicted on us. Thank you...thank you very much.
I feel for you good guys up there, you’re really in the minority.
Because his party affiliation isn’t mentioned in the headline, I assume he’s a dem.
Is he ever, about as RAT as they come. LOL!
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