"Better watch what you shay, Mishter!"
Posted on 12/23/2007 10:57:43 PM PST by Norman Bates
Every single dollar you paid in federal income taxes this year was spent on pork projects.
Outraged yet?
About $20 billion of the just-passed $555 billion federal budget was earmarked for pork. That might sound like a small percentage, but Heritage Foundation analyst Brian Riedl calculated that it equals the entire federal income tax payments for everyone in Iowa, New Hampshire, New Mexico, West Virginia, and Delaware.
So congratulations, every dollar you paid in federal taxes went to help some member of Congress get elected.
What wonderful projects did you pay for?
-The Andre Agassi prep school in Las Vegas -- $200,000.
-Olive fruit fly research in France -- $213,000.
-The Stark County, Ohio YMCA -- $500,000.
-A bike trail in Minnesota -- $700,000.
The police department in Bastrop, La., got $1.6 million, supposedly for bullet-proof vests. Even if you think Washington ought to fund local police, consider this comment from a Bastrop cop:
"There's no way we'd need that kind of money just to put all our people in vests," said Det. Curtis Stephenson.
Outraged yet?
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi pledged in March to cut the number of earmarks by half. Didn't happen. This budget contains more than 11,000 earmarks, the second-highest number in history.
Outraged yet?
Congress cannot be trusted to end earmarks. If left to the legislators who use earmarks to get re-elected, there's no way this robbery will end. It will take a President to stop it. And there is only one candidate running for President who can be trusted to do that: John McCain.
Sen. McCain was first elected to Congress in 1982. In the 25 years since, he has sponsored not a single earmark. Not one.
His yearly haranguing of Congress for its pork-barrel spending has helped bring national attention to this outrageous pilfering of taxpayer money. Sen. McCain has pledged that if elected President he will veto every bill that contains an earmark. And those who know him know he means it.
Let's put the veto pen in the hands of the one man who will use it to X out all pork-barrel spending and get Washington's fiscal house in order. Let's end once and for all this outrageous use of taxpayer money for the private benefit of elected officials. Let's elect John McCain President.
While they didn’t mention his vocal opposition to the Bridge to Nowhere or his role in taking down a multi-billion dollar defense contract sham, I think they make their point.
One more thing: Merry Christmas to all :-)
Brilliant! Our senior senator from Arizona will give amnesty to Mexico and South America.
This article’s about earmarks. But I doubt what you say will ever happen - didn’t happen last year, nor this year - never gonna happen.
Although less of an embarrassment to the GOP than Giuliani and Romney, I still remember McCain-Feingold, the gang of 14 deal and McCain’s support for the amnesty bill earlier this year....
They defecated on us. The question is, what are WE going to do about it?
Really? I know you can't prove a negative, but I find it hard to believe that any Congresscriter has never brought home the pork.
Even if that's true, McCain has sponsored and voted for legislation that was contrary to our Constitutional principles. The McCain/Feingold Bill limiting freedom of political speach within a certain timeframe was an adomination!
McLaim was also in favor of the Bush/Congressional so-called "Comprehensive Immigration Reform", that would have given AMNESTY to illegal aliens. McLaim was at the forefront of that bill.
I don't give one sh** if was unlucky enough to get shot down in the VietNam war. He has often since worked towards limiting our Constitutional rights and furthers the destruction of our sovereignty by supporting illegal aliens.
Being at the wrong place at the wrong time doesn't give him a pass to further the deterioration of our Constitutional rights.
"Better watch what you shay, Mishter!"
Two out of three.
I maintain that the “Gang of Fourteen” gambit was one of the most brilliant political schemes ever devised. The rats still don’t know what hit them.
Yup, and so do many of us. McCain is a lost soul in the bigger picture of orginal Constitutionalism. He sold his soul for the McCain/Feingold atrocity.
Get real.... this guy needs to give it up and go home. He's as useless as t*ts on a boarhog and likely far more dangerous in the most powerful position on the planet where he can compromise away every last bit of America we have left.
"Common Sense Conservative" my @ss
Just re-read this line and all I can say is what a bunch of BS. Yes, much of your dollar goes to welfare and other wasteful programs, but 100%? Just stupid writing.
Does this guy know about Defense Appropiations? Does he know about other appropiations? Has he ever read an appropiations bill? I have.
Free Republic Opinion Poll:
Would you be for or against McCain?
Member Opinion
against 92.4% 2,989
for 7.6% 247
McCain and Stem Cell Research Round-up
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO"
SEN. JOHN McCAIN: THE ULTIMATE "RHINESTONE HERO" Part II
U.S. Sen. John McCain is no War Hero
John McCain: The Manchurian Candidat
McCain Is Booed by Labor Activists
McCain Rides to Kerry's Rescue: "John Kerry is Not Weak on Defense" (Today Show alert)
John McCain SCREAMS AT 9/11 FSA MEMBERS FOR OPPOSING HIS BILL TO GIVE AMNESTY FOR ILLEGALS
A number of articles on McCain. (some the same as above)
McCain Seeks to Change California Primary
McCain/Soros by Rabbi Areyh Spero
Soros' "Reform" (an article about Soros‘ instrumental hand in McCain/Feingold)
Not Child‘s Play [McCain/Schumer bill could effect FR?]
McCain's Letter (McCain aligns with Global Enviro activists)
The Turning Point on Global Warming (McCain and Lieberman Op-Ed Alert)
Climate bill sets stage for debate (Sens. McCain, Obama, and Lieberman join forces)
McCain: Global warming is fact, must be addressed [hurl alert]
McCain Looked into Caucusing with Democrats
McCain Still Disliked by Fiscal Conservatives (Club For Growth)
John McCain Goes Left for Money
McCain, Obama Make Deal on Financing
Sens. Snowe, Collins to head Maine exploratory committee for McCain
Double Talk Express. McCain in his own words. VIDEO
More YOUTUBE - McCain On Abortion (UH OH! YouTube Has a Video of Him in 1999)
I can’t believe he would sponsor a bill to look for places for monuments to Caesar Chavez. He’s nuts.
If you mean the agreement is one of the most brilliant political schemes ever devised to legitimize democrat abuse of Senate rules, hogtie a republican majority and enable a democrat minority to dictate much of the Senate agenda during the 109th congress I agree wholeheartedly.
If not, please explain your reasoning for those of us who don't see the majesty of the agreement.
John Roberts, Sam Alito, JANICE ROGERS BROWN!, Priscilla Owen, William Pryor.... All confirmed with barely a fight. Getting the picture?
Here ya go; I copied and pasted from an old thread (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494718/posts?page=33#33) so you can hopefully get a clue:
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A Democrat filibuster is a dead issue - - won’t happen.
When Graham and DeWine walked into the scheme (the “Gang of Fourteen” deal) to trick the rats, they knew full well that they were going to take a hit from conservatives who were slow to figure it all out. And they did take a beating.
(Curiously, there are still some conservatives who apparently don’t get it yet, even after Owens, Brown, Pryor and others have been confirmed, and even after it has been explained that Frist STILL has his finger hovering over “the nuclear button” and he can push it any time he needs to.)
At this point, thanks to the “extraordinary circumstances” language of “the deal”, the rats are completely boxed in and our nervous “blue state” GOP Senators have the cover they need to vote nuclear if and when the time comes.
(It still boggles my mind that the Democrats walked right into the trap. I can hardly stop smiling!)
The Republicans needed to get a couple of ringers into the “Gang of Fourteen” in order for the scheme to work, and Graham and DeWine stepped up - - they are heroes.
The scheme was needed in the first place either because Frist was not certain that he had the fifty votes needed to “go nuclear” OR he figured that doing the “deal” was simply a superior strategy, especially from a PR point of view - - with “the deal”, the liberal press couldn’t accuse the Republicans of “running roughshod over the Constitution”, being “bullies”, doing “incalculable damage to Constitution”, “destroying Senate tradition”, etc., etc. This was the kind of press that some “blue state” Republican Senators were nervous about. But not anymore - - because NOW they got some COVER! See, if the rats filibuster virtually ANYBODY, especially a Supreme Court nominee, then the Republicans can throw up their hands and claim that the Democrats went back on their word. “We are left no choice, in the face of broken promises by the Democrats, but to change the filibuster rules at this time.”
I happen to believe that “the deal” was a masterpiece of political ingenuity that could only have been dreamed up by the ghost of Lee Atwater over breakfast with Karl Rove. And it could not have happened without the willing participation of Graham and DeWine.
SUMMARY:
As a result of “the deal”, the rats cannot sustain a filibuster because seven of them have promised not to filibuster a Supreme Court nominee except under “extrordinary circumstances”. (Simply being a conservative does not meet the criteria of “extrordinary circumstances”.) IF five of the seven Democrats in the “Gang of Fourteen” are forced by leadership to break their promise and support a filibuster, then the GOP can unabashedly (thanks to the cover provided by “the deal”) exercise their “nuclear” option.
And so any talk of a filibuster is indeed “bluster”.
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Here’s more:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1409143/posts
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