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To: elhombrelibre
LOL, still putting up that canard eh? Don't you have something else to play with? Tell us, how does he vote on those issues (as if you didn't already know)? His duty is to present the earmarks to Congress, just as his duty is to vote against same said earmarks if it comes to a vote (which it usually doesn't).
86 posted on 07/29/2007 7:35:56 PM PDT by billbears (Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. --Santayana)
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To: billbears
It doesn’t matter what he does, does it?
87 posted on 07/29/2007 7:37:00 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Democrats have plenty of patience for anti-American dictators but none for Iraqi democrats.)
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To: billbears

“...leads the Houston-area delegation in the number of earmarks, or special funding requests, that he is seeking for his district. He is trying to nab public money for 65 projects, such as marketing wild shrimp and renovating the old movie theater in Edna that closed in 1977 — neither of which is envisioned in the Constitution as an essential government function.”


94 posted on 07/29/2007 7:41:59 PM PDT by elhombrelibre (Democrats have plenty of patience for anti-American dictators but none for Iraqi democrats.)
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