In your imaginary world, try this:
Speaker Boehner lost a fight earlier this year to keep a military project with deep ties in Ohio in the defense budget. Boehner fought hard to keep a joint venture between General Electric (disclosure: GE is a minority partner in NBC) and Rolls Royce to build an alternative engine for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. The plant that builds the engine is located in a Cincinnati suburb just outside of Boehner’s district. The Secretary of Defense called the $3 billion project a waste of resources. Most Republican budget hawks agreed and joined Democrats in voting to eliminate the project.
Just to the north of Boehner’s district, another defense contractor is facing potential cuts and Boehner and fellow budget hawk, U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) will confront the dilemma that has bedeviled congressmen since the dawn of the republic.
The General Dynamics Plant in Lima, OH repairs and retrofits M1A2 Abrams tanks. Like General Electric, they employ approximately 1,000 people in the congressional district of one of the nation’s most avid budget hawks in Rep. Jordan. The Army says it has enough M1A2 Abrams tanks. Speaker Boehner and Rep. Jordan want to keep the plant and its 1,000 jobs in Lima, a post industrial city hit hard by plant closings over the last 20 years.
You can see why Boehner cut a deal on the FY11 budget only cutting 1/2 billion, but told us it was $40B.
If it isn’t IN his district it is not an earmark, whatever else you might want to call it. Paul has earmarks, Boehner doesn’t.
” You can see why Boehner cut a deal on the FY11 budget only cutting 1/2 billion, but told us it was $40B “
Sure....Boner is a RINO fraud, and a liar.