9,000 earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill: Gang tattoo removal, Maine lobster, La Raza & more!
You want earmarks? There are lots and lots and lots of earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill coming down the road. Not that any of the people who are going to vote for it will actually read it, of course. If they did, they couldn’t look into the camera and sanctimoniously declare that, uh, you know, “There are no earmarks.”
The Modesto Bee reports:
During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
President Barack Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that’s riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.
The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks — loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress — were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.
So while Obama and McCain were slamming earmarks on the camp aign trail, House and Senate members — Democrats and Republicans — were slapping them into spending bills.
“It will be a little embarrassing for the president if he signs a bill with that many earmarks on it,” said Stan Collender, a veteran Washington budget analyst.
Hill staffer Tom Jones is going through the omnibus spending bill with a fine-tooth comb, and Twittering his earmark findings, including:
* $200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;
*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;
*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;
*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.
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Maine Lobster? When do I get some?
La Raza, like ACORN, is one of the many faces of the Communist Party USA.
Earmarks for La Raza and ACORN give aid and comfort to the enemies of the Constitution of the United States.
These earmarks are treasonous, and any member of congress involved in these earmarks need to be held to account…
Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America:
God dammit, NO MORE!
The Democrats HAVE GOT TO BE STOPPED!
Where is all this money coming from? And, why in the hell do they think it is responsible and moral to throw other people’s money at such inane and undeserving “causes?”
We need to physically throw these bastards out of office, then tar and feather them.
This has all become too damned insane to be allowed to continue.
($900B to Gaza!?!?!)
Anyone who is surprised by this, please raise your hand.
It not the money as much as it means Congress does not give a rip. Just business as usual, the business of staying in office.
The country? They don’t care.
well, there’s one of the votes.
damn them all.
They are on a feeding frenzy aren’t they?
What bugs me most is that almost NOBODY sems to be raising the CONSTITUTIONALITY of these Marxulus bills!
Where is Madison when we need him?
Roger,
I agree with you. The Democratic Socialist Communists are seriously out to bankrupt this country, as a means to their Socialist/Communist ends.
By the way, the Gaza money is 900 Million, not 900 Billion, but it is outrageous nonetheless, and reveals that Obama’s agenda is pro-jihad, not pro-Israel.
You don’t…it’s for Obama’s next party.
The surest way to be ignored by 98% of Congress is to mention the word “Constitution” in their presence.
On February 23rd, 2009 at 11:26 pm, shooter said:
Two of the votes…Snowe and Collins.
Payback for their pro-porkulus votes.
Maybe there is an earmark for the Carolina Heel Splitter Mussels that are behind my house!
More and more, it looks as if we will have to exercise our Constitutional right to overthrow tyranny.
Who would have thought that the most dangerous enemies our nation would face were our affirmative-action president and boodlers in Congress?
More…blood boiling earmarks:
It’s a bi-partisan pork bill — roughly 40% are from Republicans too…
- The City of North Pole, Alaska (motto: "Where the Spirit of Christmas Lives Year Round") gets $1 million to improve its wastewater treatment system. That’s $571.43 dollar per citizen.
- $1.75 million to acquire land for the Cape Cod National Seashore.
- $2.2 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in Geneva, NY
- $2.4 million for the Southeastern Poultry Research Lab in Athens, GA
- $42,000 for "Arbuscular Mycontizal Fungi" in Wyndmoor, PA
- $1 million for Corn and Soybean Research in Wooster, OH
- $1.8 million for the Honey Bee Lab in Weslaco, TX
- $1.8 million for Swine Odor and Manure Management Research in Ames, Iowa
- $443,000 for Beaver Management and Control in Mississippi
- $208,000 for Beaver Management and Control in North Carolina
- Several hundred thousand for "Blackbird Management" programs in KS, LA, ND and SD.
- $657,000 for Brown Tree Snake Management in Guam
- $1,049,000 for "Mormon Crickets" in Utah (I am told they are neither Mormon nor are they crickets)
- $162,000 for Rodent Control in Hawaii
- $209,000 to "Improve Blueberry Production and Efficiency" in Georgia
- $254,00 for the "Montana Sheep Institute"
- $413,000 for Tri-State Joint Peanut Research in Alabama
- $2.9 million for Shrimp Aquaculture in AZ, HI, LA, MA, MS, SC and TX
- $277 million for 2nd Avenue Subway
- $210 million for LIRR terminal in Grand Central
@7 – thank you so much for that link.
WWTFFD?
What Would The Founding Fathers Do?
Let’s see … $700 billion in failed TARP money, $787 billion in pork-ridden useless stimulus money, $410 billion coming in cholesterol-choked federal waste, and Geithner’s magic TBA TARP II which could total $1 trillion (I’ll assume only half gets through, which, given the current environment, is generous)
… Basically, we’re looking at $2.5 trillion thrown down the tubes in only a few months, which, incidentally, is over 3 times the cumulative cost of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, so any potential savings from an ill-advised reduction in operations is going to produce negligible savings. So much for all that fiscal responsibility, eh? Human Events has it dead on – Obama has failed the first tests of leadership, allowing Pelosi’s hubris and Geithner’s inaction to set the tone while adopting the rhetoric of fear … and he is quickly running out of opportunities to prove otherwise.
$900M, yes. Thanks, ITTRP. I was thinking that it was almost a billion dollars to the terrorists, and got confused.
What the hell can we do about this?
Is there a way to sue Congress and put a halt on their spending until the suit is resolved?
Weep …
… for all their toils and hardship, their tears and sacrifice will end up being in vain, as we’ll end up exactly like the continent we purported to leave behind in 1776.
I wish the spirit of the Founding Fathers was alive today. Unfortunately, the spirit of the Baby Daddies is the driving force in our political realm today. We have such a narrow window to navigate through, I pray our nation makes it. I pray the citizens wake up before it’s too late.
Never forget that, in modern times, far more has been done for the sake of economic security than national security in this nation.
How about if we all just stop paying taxes? Now THAT would send a message. They wouldn’t have enough IRS agents to go after 60 million people. At least that’s the count that did NOT vote for Obama.
Tattoo removal? You can get a propane torch for less than $20 and remove a lot of gang tattoos.
Dr. Neanderthals Gang Tattoo Removal
w/o anesthesia $15 square inch
with anesthesia $75 square inch
All payments in advance
Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate
Swimming pool shaped like an Oldsmobile?
$443,000 for Beaver Management
even I am not that
Kennedy Institute again
Maine lobstahhh… well, I can see how my two disgusting senators (Snowjob and Collins) were bought off. Pigs, both of them!
Will someone please explain how Obama’s approval ratings remain so high?
I have to add, as a Maine repub voter, I’ve called my senators so many times I lost count. I told their office staff that not only will I never vote for these b!tches again, but I will vote for whomever opposes them (repub or dem).
If we’re going to have democrat senators in this tax-n-spend state, they may as well have a freakin’ D behind their names.
They disgust me!
And by all means, boycott Maine lobster, bloggers!
Because just over half of America’s populi is dumb as stumps.
There you go…
At some point, we just need a mass of people to stop paying taxes. This is insanity.
This April 15th, we send a clear message to Washington by not paying our taxes.
I don’t know if there are enough people brave enough and mad enough to do this, but if even 1/8 of the populace banded together in “civil disobedience” (thanks ACORN, for the idea), we can actually DO SOMETHING.
I wouldn’t mind a program to pay for tattooing “Felon” on each prisoners forehead they day they are released.
We could have the inmates do the tattooing too.
Too funny.
of course, I can be a bit insensitive to convicts self esteem issues…
The easy “legal” way to not pay taxes is to take some time off and earn a little less. They can’t tax what you don’t earn.
I’m open to shutting my business down for a while to make a point. Just tell me when the ‘vacation’ starts…
Not enough
Bill Clinton is going south?
More Mongoose?
Yeah, unless they have a field office in Washington DC where the swine reside
Yeah, we could have “neloF” tatooed as to remind the con what he is everyday. And when he tries to vote, the poll worker could just hand him a mirror.
We’ve got
while the fool pelosi is wasting our hard-earned tax dollars to save that little salt water rat! It’s just insanity. And don’t get me started on Swarzenkennedy and that turncoat republican who helped pass the CA state budget. Remember line from “Network”, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not taking it anymore!” We just have to stay focused and bust our butts to kick the pukes out and get conservatives re/elected. We have to make them pay by becoming the LOUD majority instead of the silent majority!
Heck, for even less than that (the cost of a .45 ACP ball round), you can get rid of the “gangsta” altogether…
Will someone please explain how Obama’s approval ratings remain so high?
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“…exceptionally large geographic area.”
HUH ? ? ?
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Can you say ACORN / LaRaza?
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Found lots of these …”above the request.”
So these people are getting MORE $$$ than they asked for.
Wonder if my boss will do that with my paycheck?
Michelle, they inserted them last year. Doesn’t that make it Bush’s fault again?
We are so screwed.
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RAAAACCCCCIST
So, where is the …
Asian Youth Gang Prevention Project
African-American Youth Gang Prevention Project
Rich Kids Youth Gang Prevention Project
Indian Youth Gang Prevention Project
Cowboy Hat Wearing Youth Gang Prevention Project
Single-African-American-Mom-Inner-City Youth Gang Prevention Project
I don’t see any earmarks that help Michelle Obama’s Children.
9,000 earmarks? That is a lot of monkey business.
I sure would like to know which person (not plural) is getting this money and who his/her parent is in congress.
Pillosee on earmarks
I think this link should be permanent.
Pillosee = lgm = fuzzy math
9,000 = 0
Gawd the people who elect these idiots are stupid.
Acting President Obama, the master of doublespeak, now has another budget buster with 9000 earmarks in the new age of combing every page for fiscal responsibility. It’s all an act for the actor.
Doublespeak is just a big word for jive talk, what they do down in the ‘hood everyday.
So you thought reparations would be in plain sight, debated and discussed, did you? Wasn’t it the Rev Wright who said it clearly — “white folks’ greed runs a world in need”. What Osama bin Laden couldn’t do with bombs, look what has been accomplished with ballots.
Becasue almost 50% of the voters no longer pay taxes, so they’ll love him forever. Then tack on the white guilt voter and true socialist vote and you can have pretty high approval numbers.
I like that idea. How about all the producers shut down for a week. Sort of a practice “John Galt”. Watch the “looters” scream.
If a politician’s lips are moving that means ….
Pelosi on earmarks
Thanks #45
Apparently, P-OB and the Dems have redefined the word “earmark” based on the pork-package and the current omnibus bill.
Let’s see…..Hmmmm. Yep, business as usual.
There is no change so we have no hope. That is, at least, in this “savior”.
This perpetual rape of the treasury will shortly destroy us all. Obama is driving this once great Republic into the depths of ruin.
Maybe La Raza (The Race) and aCorn could get together, remake themselves into Masa Harina (corn flour dough), and re-emrge as La Tortilla!!!
Mmmmmm…tacos de puerco (pork tacos)….yum yum.
oops, that’s re-emerge
More paybacks for campaign contributions. He is bold, and cares not if anyone knows about it. We get the finger again.
That works
Words, just words.
I dunno. In a year or so a lot of people will want their Dear Leader tattoo removed. Only fair he should fund it.
Yup 30. They saw how well earmarks worked so they increased them. That is the reform congress likes. If it works best for them, increase. If it hurts the tax payer just tell them Idol or Dancing is on and they will forget all of their cares.
Congress: voters are idiots and/or stooopid. Pass the BBQ sauce.
Voters: B-B-B-B they’re not Bush so, yeah, they are better for us.
Congress: see, if you tell a lie long enough and the bigger it is…
Is it just me, or does anyone else think Obama would have fit in like a round peg in the Black Panther movement?
AMERICA, THIS IS WHAT YOU WANTED! THIS IS YOUR CHANGE. YOU DESERVE WHAT YOU ASKED FOR.
IT’S NO LONGER ABOUT POLITICS. THIS IS A BLATANT ATTEMPT TO RUIN THE COUNTRY AND ENSURE ITS FINANCIAL COLLAPSE. THIS IS SOCIALIST IDEALOGY AT FULL SPEED IN AN ATTEMPT TO END THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Can we have a recall election for the President and entire Congress now please? BTW, AIG wants more money. Someone tell them mommy put the Monopoly money back in the closet.
For some reason the ChiCom justice system is sounding better and better to me.
You know, someone brought up a vote of “no confidence”. Can someone tell us if that is a real and viable option? If so, how do we get that ball rolling?
S’pose what’s left of the Republican Congress can get a clue and hold their end of the line now? I know that’s asking for a lot, with Maine Lobsters and all…
I think it involves marching in DC with weapons and tv cameras.
Stan doesn’t know ThatOne very well, does he?
Someone, please, wake me up from this nightmare of insanity! First, Congress passes the biggest, porkiest spending bill in the history of this country, then one week later the POTUS holds a big summit regarding FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY??? Now, this morning, I heard that they are going to give BILLIONS to GAZA to rebuild??? And they are giving it to the UNITED NATIONS? And they PROMISE none of the money will get to hama??? Please, God, wake me up. The top third of my head is splattered all over the wall. THESE CRIMINALS IN WASHINGTON MUST BE STOPPED AND QUICKLY!
Barak Obama is banking (excuse the pun) on the fact that we have short memories and we will forget what prinicipals he ran on. He is correct that some of us will choose to forget the things he promised, and even though Americans do have short memories, most of us remember what happened last week. I think, for instance, he should probably wait a little longer than a couple of weeks after he pushed though the stimulus package before he starts yammering about fiscal responbility. We’re forgetful that’s true, but not that forgetful and he does look and sound like an imbecile.
Sorry, I hit the send button before I was done. I just wanted to apologize for my overreaction and humbly beg the forgiveness of the messiah…just in case he is reading this blog. Thank you. Your servant, Happyscrapper.
This is Nancy’s work all the way. They have to expand the political spectrum to chart how far to the left she is.
You can feel the Historic Election of 2010 racing toward us. It will be sweet.
I thought the House GOP members did a fine job on Porkulus. We can expect the same for this next plate of $#!^ sandwiches.
I just had a chance to read some of the comments that I didn’t read before my rant. So, Gaza is getting millions, not billions. I feel so much better now. Not.
It doesn’t matter how bad Obama/Pelosi/Reid are because Bush/Cheney/Rove/Halliburton was worse.
/lgm
I don’t know if anyone else has mentioned this, but is Israel getting any money to rebuild? Just asking…
ACORN is in charge of polling.
Many of the sponsors of these earmarks are no longer in Congress. Like Chris Shays. Or like Joe Knollenberg (R) MI who earmarked $820,000 to “The Friendship Circle” for “Self-determination Anti-Bullying”.
To save time, I suggest we each do a search of our own Representatives (or if they are a new member of Congress, their predecessor) and see what we find.
Meanwhile, from the west wing, dear leader is sitting comfortably in 80 degrees, discussing the anger across this nation, and giving us all the middle finger salute and saying “I WON!”
My blood is boiling about this blatant move to buy the United States. I’m also boiling because even in my state of Virginia, rich on history, the Commie movement is being advanced by Comrade Colonel Senator Web, Comrade Senator Warner and of course Democrat Representative (I’ll give you health care for your 30 year old children) Comrade Nye.
They’re being led around by Reid and Pelosi and given bones as long as they are good little Commies.
Looking at all this from another perspective, of all the crap they have spent our money on they could have at least have bought a copy of Turbo Tax for each Citizen. Something we are certainly going to need. Not that Tiny Timmy O Gee would use it.
Why is anyone paying their mortgage if the government will do it for you?
We need a little civil disobedience. They can’t fund all this stuff without us. Are you ready to destroy your credit to save the country?
410 billion more…..
WHERE THE F%^K ARE THEY GETTING THIS MONEY FROM???
If you don’t think they are going to rasie your taxes, you are a flat out idiot.
BTW I know how he will cut the defict in half. He will spend trillions and then claim victory after he reduces the defict to half of that.
Most of our credit scores are going down anyway, so why not?
And 900 billion to gaza? FEAKING GAZA???
That is directly funding HAMAS who wants to KILL us!!!
opps billions = millions.
whats the difference anymore.
Everyone just SHUT UP and give this your support so that they can hurry up and pass it. Times a wastin’ and the sky will fall if they don’t get it done NOW besides they want to go on vacation in a couple of weeks. Obama has a party to go to next weekend and he wants to get Air Force One tanked up! Just SHUT UP and HURRY UP – GET IN LINE!
Yes comrade misscheryl.
I found 3 earmarks Phil Gingrey (R) Georgia sponsored or co-sponsored which don’t appear to be outlandish.
1. Department of Justice/ COPS Law Enforcement Technology/Cobb County, Georgia Regional Communications Interoperability Network
Marietta, Georgia/$675,000
Not sure what how effective neurofeedback treatment is, but Inner Harbour is not just some Kumbaya group and does good work:
2. Inner Harbour for Children
and Families to advance neurofeedback treatment to help troubled youths overcome deficits, avoid trouble, and become highly functioning memo
bers of SOCiety./$100,000
3. National Center for State
Courts – State Court Improvement Initiative/Williamsburg, VA/ $100.000
It doesn’t really matter. A higher score used to mean a lower interest rate. Now they’re charging higher rates to those with higher scores because they’re the most likely to pay it.
Today I believe they are presenting and voting on giving D.C. its own full voting representative. Don’t these idiots even pretend to understand the Constitution. First a representative and then two senators. Marion Barry, senator for life!
We really have nothing to lose that they don’t want to take from us. Let’s go John Galt on ‘em.
When this passes, the democratic congress, and obama will have spent more than the cost of all the military operations in the entire middle east and Afganistan for the last 10 years combined, in less than 2 months. And they will have done nothing to pay for any of it. So when obama says tonight, I will cut the defict in half, he will be lying to your face.
Welcome to bankruptcy. Your slave number will be your SSN.
Fixed it. Words are noise, actions are thunder. I think their actions are very loud. We just refuse to accept it, nor can we believe that that is what they are saying.
sonofdy said:
Can’t be your SSN. That would hurt too many illegals that were forced by the white man to steal identities.
Another permanent Democrat seat.
Will we be getting tattos to help identify us and keep us from escaping our obligations? I’m pretty sure, at least for me, it will be utterly worthless in terms of receiving any part of the vast sums I have paid our masters the past 25 or 30 years to keep in the SS lock box for me.
No no no. You don’t understand. The money will be funneled through the U.N. which PROMISES none of it will get to hamas. They promised. Don’t you feel ever so much better now? No worries, the U.N. has your back.
Over the last 50 years we have created a nation of beggars, standing with their hands out waiting for their master(government) to provide for their wants and needs.
We must teach these people the most important word in national economics – NO!
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The Secretary of Labor shall provide a report to the Committees on
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate by July 1,2009
detailing the actions that the Department will take under existing authorities to
ensure that its programs and policies are oriented to reduce the disparities in
unemployment rates across racial and ethnic groups.
There is no shame in ‘that one’.
Ok, none in Congress either.
fixed
Was Bush in the House or Senate…I can’t remember.
On February 24th, 2009 at 8:48 am, On-my-soap-box said: (#61)
I think this only works in a parliamentary system–Canada’s or Great Britain’s, for examples.
Never has the term “pearls before swine” meant so much.
As much as I hate the thought of listening to that man and his uh…uh….um…lies tonight, we do need to hear whathehastosay. (just trying to sound like him in writing…did it work?) I am just glad my husband will be gone this evening so he won’t hear me swearing at the TV. He might come home to a smashed one, however. Osama lies with every breath he takes, then goes all smiley and makes a joke and everyone bows down. Pure evil.