Thad Cochran: 'I Think Earmarks Have Gotten A Bad Name'

breitbart.com ^ | 5/13/14 | Matthew Boyle

[colorado tanker]

For once I agree with Thad.

Yes, Thad, earmarks have gotten a bad name. With good reason.

[houeto]

Thank you WKB for the list!

Mississippi Ping!

[Sybeck1]

My father is a Thad fan and had a sign in his yard. Why I have asked him? Because he had helped him in the past. When I tell it is other people's money he just can't defend the man

[Hawthorn]

>> Spending is spending whether a congressman earmarks it directly or a bureaucrat decides where it goes. <<

Sure. But the objection to earmarks is that they increase the incentives for Congressmen, Congresswomen and Senators to vote for more and more federal spending.

Therefore, the anti-earmark theory as espoused by people like Sen. Tom Coburn is basically this:

Get rid of earmarks and then, total spending is supposed to go down.

(Maybe the theory wouldn’t work as advertised. But it’s certainly worth a try!)

[Din Maker]

My father is a Thad fan and had a sign in his yard. _____________________________________________________________ .......had a sign in his yard??? Does that mean he has removed the sign?

[Theodore R.]

A lot of MS people don’t know that Thad was part of the cabal in MS in 1976 that delivered all 30 delegates under the unit rule to the “John Paul Stevens Republican”, Gerald Rudolph, Ford, Jr., which is also an alias.