Can you feel Tea Party fever of fiscal discipline sweeping over the GOP, where it's out with the old and in with the new?...
... Um, except it's not. The all-powerful House Appropriations Committee will be chaired by 30-year veteran Rep. Hal Rogers of Kentucky, who brought home $252 million in earmarks between 2008 and 2010.
The Honorable Mr. Rogers will now be in charge of -- don't laugh! -- enforcing the GOP's pledge to ban legislative earmarks, aka "pork" projects.
That's kind of like (choose your poison)...
... the DEA being run by Pablo Escobar
... PETA being run by Michael Vick
... the SEC being run by Bernie Madoff
... the State Dept. being run by Julian Assange
... or the Int'l Atomic Energy Agency being run by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
But hey, that "hopey changey thing" could always work out for ya teabaggers, yeah?
Hal Rogers, 'Prince Of Pork,' To Be Appointed GOP Chairman Of House Appropriations Committee
December 7, 2010 | AP/Huffington Post
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/07/hal-rogers-appropriations-committee_n_793529.html
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