Comments on: Correction/update: Coburn anti-earmark vote now; competitive bidding amendment fails, 38-57; earmark ban fails 43-52

By: Let me tell you about Sam | Rebuild the US

Let me tell you about Sam | Rebuild the US — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:40:06 +0000

[...] didn’t like him all that much. But he’s had a really bad habit of spending money on stupid things that I’d liken to magic beans. We told him that this wanton spending spree was a bad idea, [...]

By: HOW DEMOCRATS CREATED THE ECONOMIC CRISIS « FactReal

HOW DEMOCRATS CREATED THE ECONOMIC CRISIS « FactReal — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 04:46:13 +0000

[...] Tiger Stadium etc., etc… (Hat tip: Taxpayers for Common Sense, Try 2 Focus, MichelleMalkin, more) Vote updates: 3/3/2009, 3/5/2009, [...]

By: GOP and Dems United in Pork! | The Great Illuminator

GOP and Dems United in Pork! | The Great Illuminator — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:14:28 +0000

[...] resist … must gorge at the taxpayer [...]

By: The stock market continues to die, the White House continues to party and trash Rush Limbaugh | Fire Andrea Mitchell!

Thu, 05 Mar 2009 21:36:01 +0000

[...] admit that people who were irresponsible will benefit; and the day after the Senate passed his no-bid-contract-earmark-laden omnibus spending bill, pledges to end “wasteful spending” and open up the contract process. [...]

By: NJ-Aviator

NJ-Aviator — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:32:04 +0000

Just circling back to this one since our lawmakers had the audacity to hope to defend their waste of our money.

On the tattoo removal earmark..

The $200,000 earmark for a “tattoo-removal violence-outreach program” in Los Angeles is for a removal machine to rid gang members of biased markings that could affect their future lives. “It sounds ridiculous, but it’s an important project,” said one senior Senate Democratic leadership aide.

Here’s a thought. Wear a friggin’ shirt or get the tattoo removed on your own dime.

By: Chronicles of Obama: Captain Earmark and the Sea of Debt |

Chronicles of Obama: Captain Earmark and the Sea of Debt | — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:34:06 +0000

[...] The Republicans are put in the position of, “dang if you do, dang if you don’t.” Politicians aren’t stupid, they know what they are doing and most of them know exactly how to get what they want because they have have made representing their state a career. To say that the Republicans’ earmarks is the issue is just another straw man that needs to be set a flamed. Consider Harkin’s justification of his earmark: HARKIN: “So I suppose we’ll hear a lot of jokes on David Letterman and Jay Leno and a lot of oth… [...]

By: RabbidSquirrel

RabbidSquirrel — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:25:45 +0000

And Sen. Tom Harkin gets his $1.8 million swine and manure odor treatment funding.

How much does it cost to attach a vacuum cleaner hose to every pigs anus? Im pretty sure the hose is reusable after the slaughter.

Random thought: Why is Pepe LaPew the outcast but Porky Pig never has to go to the bathroom? And for that matter why is he called Porky? Thats racist.

By: Rip Ford

Rip Ford — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:33:28 +0000

I see Kay Bailey Hutchison voted against the competitive bid amendment. I look forward to voting that RINO out.

By: PKAmmoTroop

PKAmmoTroop — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:05:49 +0000

$1,791,000 earmark for swine odor and manure management research in Ames, Iowa;

Well, I mean… come on! Wouldn’t something like this for democrats be considered nepotism?

By: jangar

jangar — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:59:51 +0000

$1,791,000 earmark for swine odor and manure management research in Ames, Iowa;

In other words…how to put pig farmers out of business and on to the government teet.

By: jangar

jangar — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:55:15 +0000

I thought the surgeon general warned us years ago that bacon was really bad for your health…must have been a bunch of BS, cause it’s the only thing on the menu in DC and I don’t see those gluttons dropping off like flies.

By: Obama’s tactics | skewred.com

Obama’s tactics | skewred.com — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 02:50:59 +0000

By: corkie

corkie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:49:51 +0000

On March 4th, 2009 at 6:25 pm, zyzzyg said:

I’m looking forward to those who decry pork, to release their pork earmarks.

… or will they follow the Democrats and Pres Obama?

At least your honest about the fact that the Democrats and Obama are the pork leaders.

By: corkie

corkie — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:47:10 +0000

HARKIN: This is very important in the daily lives in the people of my state, in North Carolina…”

Then let THEM pay for it!!!!!

By: corona

corona — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 01:37:43 +0000

NEW: Arlen Specter votes for earmarks related to corrupt lobbying firm