John McCain sponsored a bill to cut all the pork out of the new budget plan. Nine Republicans are voting against the amendement. It’s no wonder. Here is the list of the top 10 porky pigs in line at the trough, according to the watch group, Taxpayers for Common Sense. 14 out of the top 20 porkers who will receive porkly earmarks are Republicans. Here’s the list of the nine Republicans that voted against McCain and for all the pork. All of them are still slated to get big porky pieces of the spending pie: Senators Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Robert Bennett of Utah, Christopher Bond of Missouri, Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Susan Collins of Maine, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, Richard Shelby of Alabama, Olympia Snowe of Maine and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania.
Wait a second! I thought the Republicans didn’t have time to even read the stimulus package? They were hollering, “No, No, NO!” We can’t vote on this stimulus package!
Remember all the hullaballoo? Well, I guess you don’t need to read the thing to get your porky projects inserted by a mega-lobby firm outfit called PMA Group being investigated and busted by the FBI just last November. The obvious thing to do would be to take out all the questionable PMA Group pork, as was proposed by Republican, Tom Coburn(R-Okla). But then, you’d have to guess again. Coburn met as much resistance to this idea from his own party as he did from the Democrats. From yesterday’s news:
Just over an hour ago, by a vote of 43 to 52, the Senate rejected Sen. Tom Coburn’s (R, Okla.) amendment to eliminate the PMA earmarks from the Omnibus bill. Coburn’s statement explains the details:
“Instead of draining the swamp, Congress is protecting the polluters. The Senate could have removed 13 earmarks from this bill that are associated with the PMA Group, a K Street lobbying firm under investigation by the Justice Department over whether the firm made illegal campaign contributions to members of Congress who requested earmarks. Yet, the Senate decided to defend business as usual at the earmark favor factory. The American people want change now. They shouldn’t have to wait for further investigations, search warrants and possibly prosecutions to motivate us to restore the public’s trust in Congress.”
Anyone who has seen Rush Limbaugh lately can see why the Republicans have got Rush as their perfect Mascot to go along with the “New Party” ideas. The GOP’ers just cannot get enough of Fat, Bloated, Porky Programs! Did they really think we wouldn’t notice all the useless spending they’ve inserted? When will they get a clue that taxpayers and voters are fed up?
commi red what a bunch of crap . like a true liberal . not telling all the facts . your clowns are now in charge . so when nobama blows up in your face and this bill fails WHO ARE YOU GOING TO BLAME ? it was your party that has stacked this with useless spending . now there are some reps who have put some crap in . and those guys along with strech face pelosi should be gone .
No surprise here.
Hypocrisy is spelled “Republicans”.
Sonny,
I told you to pay attention during reading class. I am shocked that you apparently cannot read simple new stories. Your conclusions are off the wall, my son! You are hopelessly illiterate!
Please re-read the passage and justify your conclusions. You also owe Red an apology for being such a dufus.
Love,
Your Mommy
R.Vixen, These conservative senators and congressman are not foolish, just practical. They know very well if you can repeat a lie often enough, more and more people begin to believe them. It takes a lot of money to repeat lies on a national scale. They don’t like those earmarks … they need the funds that earmarks bring or they’re out of power.
The Republican pork was placed in order to get Republican votes to pass the budget.
Republican electeds are criticizing the President’s budget and will not vote to pass it.
The President does not need their votes to pass it.
The President should then remove the Republican pork along with any Democrating pork.
This would increase his popularity and stay consistant with his election pledge to eliminate earmarks.
The President should publicize the Republican requests for pork and eliminate it for his political benefit.
The Republicans are doing everything in their power to wreck his Presidency. This would be a good means of payback.
Vixen,
Limbaugh as the Republican leader is a godsend to the Democratic party.
This occurrence was perfectly orchestrated by the President’s supporters.
Besides Omaba’s other attributes, he is extreamly intellegent.
Not-so-great one,
Strech (sic) face? What are you, in 3rd grade?
Red.
Do you call this pork and beans?
Projects in Santa Ana, California
Below are the “shovel-ready” projects for which this city submitted in the 2008 U.S. Conference of Mayors report. You can click on a project to read (and add to) its description. You can also discuss the project and vote on whether you believe it is critical or not.
The total cost of all the projects submitted by Santa Ana is $213,148,440
Art.
The problem with earmarks is that they have many facets. For starters many recipients argue that we are a donor state in a donor county. Many take the position that if we don’t take the money someone else will. A cop out. That is not being fiscally conservative.
I would prefer removing all earmarks but that is not the latest tune president Obama’s staff are singing. To paraphrase. In order to deal with the recession we need to do this today and will take a harder look at earmarks and engage in line item veto’s in future budgets. That is a bogus and insulting statement from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
Larry. Get real. We need to appease all of the “special interests” who supported our campaign.
And that is not just from the president. We need to bring something back to the District or we may not get reelected in our next cycle.
Good discussions, all!
The PMA group is closely associated with democrat, Murtha, so it makes sense that a Republican would suggest to take out all PMA “pork”. I agree with him 100% and it seemed like a great start to at least addressing an illegal lobby group’s efforts and stopping them cold. However, porkypigs from both sides of the aisle voted that down as well as McCain’s attempts to eliminate earmarks. I think that really illustrates just how entrenched the “ruling class” made up of our very wealthy representatives are. This is THE most wealthy group of government “servants” that this nation has ever been saddled with. The more we remember that, the quicker us regular folks will come to realize that it really is “them vs. us” and I am NOT talking party lines. I am referring to the folks who are convinced that they are absolutely entitled to feed on any opportunity for self-enrichment, vs those of us who expect responsible, ethical and accountable government electeds.
Limbaugh really is the big piggy boss of this class warfare. He drags down $38 million a year for the next 8 years – which is completely disconnected from the vast majority of his listeners and most of the people who are citizens of this country. His friends have benefited richly by no-bid contracts, bloated military pork projects, tricking investors into jumping back into the market when it is completely unsafe (anyone see the Jon Stewart video slashing CNBC and their tricksters duping us common investors?), those who try to take away our safety nets like health care, SS, infrastructure, education and all those other items that they want us to vote against our own best interests.
They are like snake charmers and we’ve somehow fallen under their spell. Time to wake up from the nightmare that has been forced on us.
Here’s a goodie for the great one. It is a little 30 second cartoon of Nancy Pelosi and Brad Pitt. I think you’ll get a chuckle out of it. Here, tell me what you think:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385×280529
They need more Diet Coke and less porkage!
hhha i love pissing off you far left libs
Not-so-great one,
We’re not pissed. We’re simply amazed at your idiocy.
little one: nobody takes anything you are saying seriously anyway.
All you do is incoherent rambling. Must be hard to be a Reep these days…
wow post 13 i am going to lose sleep over that one and little joe zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Art L,
I agree with your comments. We are lucky to have such a bright guy as our leader right now when we need so many problems to be solved.
Here is “that pissed off guy”. Quick and funny video clip. The internet is hatching some pretty good homegrown comedy. Check it out
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=842o4NqTfvc
“Why don’t you go and father the anti-christ….?”
lol!
Vixen,
It so amusing that the Right Wing Republican minority chooses an entertainer and oxycodone prescription drug addict to be their leader.
At the same tme they have a huge problem with Hollywood(entertainment)and their hard line stance with the drug culture. But embrace Rush who is associate with both.
Art L:
That always reminds me of the old “this is your brain on drugs” spot.
The Republicans, as taken over by Limbaugh, Hannity and Co., are acting with their brains on drugs, in the case of Limbaugh literally…
I bet Rod Blago is even more confused now…..he probably doesn’t understand why HE got in so much trouble but everyone else gets away with it….
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1531053/pay_to_play_more_revelations_regarding.html?singlepage=true&cat=75
mB