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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Thursday, December 9, 2010
Thursday, December 2, 2010
GOP Tea Party Caucus pigs out on pork
"Hotline On Call's report on records from Citizens Against Government Waste found that the 52 members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus were responsible for 764 earmarks that racked up a tab of $1,049,783,150 in federal dollars."
The anti-pork Tea Party Caucus must have been thinking, "We'll go on a diet AFTER the holidays." No shame in that. Everybody does it, right?
Tea Party Caucus Took $1 BILLION In Earmarks
By Nick Wing
December 2, 2010 Huffington Post
The anti-pork Tea Party Caucus must have been thinking, "We'll go on a diet AFTER the holidays." No shame in that. Everybody does it, right?
Tea Party Caucus Took $1 BILLION In Earmarks
By Nick Wing
December 2, 2010 Huffington Post
URL: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/02/tea-party-caucus-took-1-b_n_790892.html
Tuesday, February 9, 2010
WashTimes: GOP hypocrites oppose stimulus, seek pet projects
So after I forward this article from the far-right Washington Times comes the part when Republicans go to Plan B, their usual fallback, whenever a liberal who believes in the positive role of government points out the hypocrisy and poison of Republicans in government who steal and deal in pork:
"Well, it just goes to show you that government is evil," Republican hacks reply. "They're all bums."
And they continue voting Republican.
At least my party, with all its warts, thinks government can be good. These guys think government is a necessary evil -- and a significant subset don't even think it's necessary. So how cynical and black-hearted must they be to hold such beliefs, and yet at the same time squeeze the federal budget for every dollar in pork and special favors they can get?
Stimulus foes see value in seeking cash
Pet projects irresistible to GOP lawmakers
By Jim McElhatton
February 9, 2010 | Washington Times
URL: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/09/stimulus-foes-see-value-in-seeking-cash/
"Well, it just goes to show you that government is evil," Republican hacks reply. "They're all bums."
And they continue voting Republican.
At least my party, with all its warts, thinks government can be good. These guys think government is a necessary evil -- and a significant subset don't even think it's necessary. So how cynical and black-hearted must they be to hold such beliefs, and yet at the same time squeeze the federal budget for every dollar in pork and special favors they can get?
Stimulus foes see value in seeking cash
Pet projects irresistible to GOP lawmakers
By Jim McElhatton
February 9, 2010 | Washington Times
URL: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2010/feb/09/stimulus-foes-see-value-in-seeking-cash/
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