Kerry SNEAKS $20 Million Kennedy Tribute Earmark into Defense Bill

Boston Globe/The Lid ^ | 9/25/09 | The Lid

[Shellybenoit]

Wake Up John Kerry, this year's deficit is approaching two trillion dollars. The F-22 was canceled leaving us with a gap where the US will have no new bombers and we are fighting two wars. American citizens are protesting all across the country because spending and taxes are way to high and you have the nerve to add a $20 million dollar pork barrel project to honor Ted Kennedy?

That's what the former Democratic Party standard bearer is doing. That military spending bill moving through Congress contains a sneaky outlay for Boston that has nothing to do with national defense. A $20 million pork barrel earmark for an educational institute honoring the late Teddy Kennedy.

[beethovenfan]

Why doesn’t Horseface use a little of Ta-RAY-sa’s money? (Oh, and didn’t he serve in Vietnam?)

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Now we know where Kerry’s heart is—With the Kennedy Family and not with the USA. It was so good he lost the election.

[donhunt]

I don’t need $20 million to remember that stinkin’ SOB.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Best tribute to the swimmer is to drink too much and hurl. A heck of allot cheaper to boot.

[DejaJude]

Is there anything honoring Mary Jo?

[bigbob]

I hate it when they pull this crap. I don’t care who it’s for...

[FlingWingFlyer]

This needs to be stopped! How disgraceful to use the military to steal taxpayer dollars to finance the ‘RAT celebration of Red Ted’s demise. This is disgusting and an insult to any American who has ever worn a uniform.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Hanoi Boi needs to sneak this into the ObamaCare bill. All the pork should be in one bill.

[Huskrrrr]

Ketchup Boy (who served in Viet Nam) has no concept of what the rest of us go through to earn a dollar.

[A. Morgan]

Now, if someone would just sneak in the requirement that said $20 million must be spent on pay toilets and Port-a-Johns.. I’m just saying.

[AmericanVictory]

How about a memorial to the man who did so much to lose the war we were winning in Vietnam.

[beaversmom]

And he doesn’t care.

[texgal]

How about a driving school as a tribute to good ol’ Teddy boy?

[Arizona Carolyn]

I supposed McCain will vote FOR this!

[mkjessup]

Maybe, if fate is kind, Fat Teddy’s replacement (Paul Kirk) will soon be introducing a spending earmark into some bill as a memorial to John Fin’ Kerry?

[AngelesCrestHighway]

You want a Kennedy tribute Kerry? This Oldsmobile will do just fine.....

[kennedy]

A $20 million pork barrel earmark for an educational institute honoring the late Teddy Kennedy.

How about naming a swimming pool or a bridge after him?

[EdReform]

Ping

[OpeEdMunkey]

How ‘bout renaming the bridge over Poucha Pound. The one where Teddy saw two bridges and picked the wrong one.

[OpeEdMunkey]

Why doesn’t Horseface use a little of Ta-RAY-sa’s money? (Oh, and didn’t he serve in Vietnam?)

"Hey Kerry...why the long face?"

[esorcire]

If Teddy was half the man his brothers were, Mary Jo would still be alive.

[troy McClure]

Never buy any Heinz Products.

The list is here.

http://www.heinz.com/our-food/products/abc.aspx

[ronnie raygun]

20 million for a murderer who should have been locked up. Frankenkerry needs his bolts tightened by the voting taxpayers of this country. Hey Massachusetts, the birth place of this great nation, your patriot leaders are tossing in thier graves, own up get your a##es on track be proud of your heritage, we are! Dump the dicks!

[opentalk]

Everyday, we read that the dollar is collapsing and countries are running from the dollar. Yet our leaders keep spending and printing. They are putting us at a big risk.

Kerry is so arrogant

[Citizen Soldier]

He should get his wife who contributes money to the Tides Foundation to give to the project

[Citizen Soldier]

Remember when he ran, his personal butler always had a peanut butter sandwich waiting for him in case he got hungry.

[Huskrrrr]

Incredible!

[VOA]

“The F-22 was canceled leaving us with a gap where the US will
have no new bombers...”

I never served in the US military (or any other, for that matter).

So forgive me for laughing and being angry that The Boston Globe is
(to my reading) calling the F-22 a bomber.
My naive, inexpert understanding is that it is, in the main, viewed
as an “air superiority fighter”.

Although I guess it can carry some potent items in it’s internal bombays
in a very stealthy way. And thus function as an air-to-surface
bomber when needed.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-22_Raptor