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Navy_Navy_Navy
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 Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 9:52 pm Post subject: 11,000 "earmarks" |
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Eleven THOUSAND earmarks attached to this continuing resolution. Twenty per Congress Critter - enough to hand out a lot of sweet little party favors in their districts.
Nobody has a clue how much money these 11,000 special earmarks entail. Nobody's watching where it's going or what it's paying for. Nobody cares.
Our Congress is the worst ever in the history of our government, and this little stunt perfectly illustrates how they just keep pushing the envelope, ever striving to reach new depths of fiscal ineptitude.
How much longer are we going to let them get away with this kind of nonsense before we kick them all out of office and start from scratch?
Eleven thousand earmarks. 
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:04 pm Post subject: |
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The problem is with the caliber of people and what society accepts. Watching BOR the other night and him and a good looking woman were discussing how questions about infedelity should not enter into the race. BOR said FDR was a good president and JFK and they had affairs, yet this is exactly what is wrong.
If you commit adultery you are unfit for the office of president. You are a person of an unaaceptable character flaw.
We have lowered our standards to such a low degree with end up with garbage.
If the public knew JFK and Roosevelt were havng affairs there is no doubt they would have been defeated.
It blows my mind a person such as Guilianni is even being considered for the presidency. I wouldn't even drink a beer with the guy, let alone accept him as fit for being president of the US.
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Fri Dec 21, 2007 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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Yep, we have continually "settled," over and over again for so many years.
Every now and then, something comes along that shocks us and we wonder just how in the heck we got this far.
And then the latest low that we've settled for becomes the norm....
and so we go... 
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baldeagle
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GeeDubya may have just figured out a way to thwart most of them and save the taxpayers a few bucks.
| Quote: | POTUS vs. Pork
President Bush signaled during his news conference yesterday that he just might have had it with earmarks, those special-interest pork projects that are often dropped into spending bills without proper hearings or oversight.
After expressing disappointment at the thousands of earmarks stuffed into the foot-tall Omnibus spending bill passed by Congress, Mr. Bush told reporters: "I am instructing the budget director to review options for dealing with the wasteful spending in the omnibus bill."
The president gave no details, but | Code: | | [b]South Carolina Senator Jim DeMint, a vocal critic of earmarks, has an idea what the president may have in mind. He has long cited a Congressional Research Service opinion that 90% of earmarks are suspect because they were slipped into committee reports and not written into law. "These non-legislated earmarks are not legally binding," Mr. DeMint says. "President Bush could ignore them. He doesn't need a line-item veto." [/b] |
The Club for Growth reports that Mr. Bush might be planning an executive order that would tell federal agencies simply to ignore Congress' earmarks if they aren't written into law and spend the money on higher priorities.
Such a bold move would result in a dramatic boost in President Bush's credibility on the budget. The federal government is now an astounding 185 times as big in real terms as it was a century ago. A general sense that Republicans have forgotten why they were sent to Washington is a big reason why the GOP lost control of Congress last year. The road to redemption has to include a crackdown on earmarks, which Oklahoma Senator Tom Coburn calls "the gateway drug to higher spending in many other areas." |
http://www.opinionjournal.com/best/?id=110011026
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baldeagle
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| Posted: Sat Dec 22, 2007 3:09 am Post subject: |
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Ed Morrissey @ "Captain's Quarters has more on the subject.
| Quote: | Will Bush Cancel Congress' Christmas? (Bumped)
The omnibus spending bill made its way down Pennsylvania Avenue this week, and it could have slid all the way down on the grease it contains from over 9,000 earmarks. In remarks yesterday, George Bush warned that his budget director will look at ways to eliminate wasteful spending, and thanks to Congressional dishonesty, he may have a way to do it:
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http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/
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Navy_Navy_Navy
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| Posted: Sun Dec 23, 2007 12:28 am Post subject: |
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Well thank heavens!
I like the way Ed Morrisey phrased that, "...and thanks to Congressional dishonesty..."
If the President follows through with this, Congress is (undeservedly) going to come out smelling like a rose. Maybe even better off than if he doesn't.
They're going to make political points for having tried to pork barrel a bunch of projects... and that mean ol' President thwarted them, AGAIN.
The taxpayer is not going to suffer the pain of these 11,000 earmarks (for which no one even has a cost estimate?!) so they won't be writing angry letters to their Congressman about getting the budget under control.
One more thing to fan the "hate Bush" flames and they get to take credit for trying to bring their share of pork into their districts.
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