Posted on 02/27/2009 6:25:03 PM PST by Big_Monkey
"Tmr I am gonna tweet the TOP TEN PORKIEST PROJECTS in the Omnibus Spending bill the Congress is about to pass," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., wrote on his Twitter page yesterday.
And today he did.
They are:
"#10. $1.7M "for a honey bee factory" in Weslaco, TX
"#9. $475,000 to build a parking garage in Provo City, Utah
"#8. $200,000 "tattoo removal violence outreach program to could help gang members or others shed visible signs of their past" REALLY?
"#7. $300,000 for the Montana World Trade Center - enough said
"#6. $1 million for mormon cricket control in Utah - is that the species of cricket or a game played by the brits?
"#5. $650,000 for beaver management in North Carolina and Mississippi"
McCain had tweeted a question about how one manages a beaver, but he deleted it after the comment provoked a twizzard.
"#4. $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York - quick peel me a grape.
"#3. $332,000 for the design and construction of a school sidewalk in Franklin, Texas - not enough $ for schools in the stimulus?
"#2. $2 million 'for the promotion of astronomy' in Hawaii - because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy"
And 30 minutes ago, Mr. McCain finally offered the big payoff:
"#1. $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa"
- jpt
The voters who stayed home, voted for Obama or Bob Barr put Obama in the White House. It doesn’t matter how bad his campaign was run, we ALL knew what Obama was, it was never a vote FOR McCain it was a vote for our freedom. Even Newt said today, we conservatives would be much better off with McCain and a 20% fight vs Obama and a 90% fight.
Thad Cochran is very ticked off that Glenn Beck called him out on his earmark yesterday.
Yeah, this really chaps my a$$. McCain, for all his failings, wouldn't be on the abortion express, wouldn't be looking to reinstate the assault weapons ban, wouldn't be looking to close down the war on terror, wouldn't be nominating anti-Zionist zealots to the National Security Council, wouldn't be...
....the list goes on and on. McCain had problems, but Obama is undoing, with the stroke of a pen, things that have taken decade to fix and in the process, is doing damage that will take decades to repair.
If we had either a Republican Senate or House, maybe the "we're better off without McCain" argument makes sense. But now, three of the most liberal people in the history of the republic control all three of the four levers of government.
I kept trying to tell people how important it was not to allow all three to fall into the democrats hands and too many people, right here, kept saying let the GOP lose and then we can rebuild it... it was stupid then coming out of their mouths and it’s even more stupid now and I, frankly, have no patience with any of those people. We are in a dead serious time and there is no place for people on a serious site to make idiotic comments... JMHO of course.
Does anyone have any doubt that it’s a staffer who’s doing this in his name?
Didn’t think so...
Just another little lie that makes all politicians seem less trustworthy.
I grew up in Wisconsin along the Fox River. The many paper mills there produced a nauseating smell that wafted our direction all too frequently. The locals who worked at the mills joked that this was the smell of money being made. I didn’t mind the smell so much after that.
“Obama’s spending by the $2 trillion and McCain’s taking him to task by the $200,000.”
Exactly right. Here’s one way to measure their relative relevance.
Chicken feed. My top three:
1. The entire department of education
2. The entire commerce department
3. The entire energy department.
Zero them out and you’ve made a good start.
“I kept trying to tell people how important it was not to allow all three to fall into the democrats hands...”
Me too. And I argued that point as strenuously as I could to all my acquaintances who happen to be very liberal by reason of my present circumstances. I reminded them that if they were trying to reincarnate the Clinton “glory years” of boundless prosperity, that those years occurred against a backdrop of a divided Congress who checked the Clinton playbook quite effectively.
Alas, I converted very few, I’m afraid. McCain was truly a very hard sell, a mediocre and unappealing choice at best, and ran a flat-out miserable campaign. The economy and the markets sure didn’t help much, but when McCain gave in to bailout #1, the one he flew back to DC to veto, then later gave into it, I had little ground to stand on.
You’re so cute, John. Now go away.
Gotta love that pig odor research— I mean, it’s something people ALWAYS talk about but never really do anything about.
OK, I signed up for Twitter. Now how does it work? How do I find the threads I want to be on? I don’t get it.
Seriously, I have no idea how it works. I'm putting off asking my 9 year old for a tutorial.
That was funny!
Many don't want to face the hard reality that McCain and rinos delivered Obama the Presidency on a silver plater. If you stand for nothing you fall for anything.
Especially when Beck wasn’t going to say anything on his show about it until he received another email right before he went on the air and got ticked off... I love Beck! I wish Sean would be more like Beck and not cheer lead for any one Republican... but treat them all equally hard.
simple, you get money for a windfarm for your back yard, then simply reverse the polarity to the motor, and presto, the smell literally gets sent back! All on the govt dime.
I love Beck, too. I wish they would move him to a better time slot for more exposure. We get him @ 4pm—before people get home from work. They could give him O’Reilly’s slot-—I’m so tired of that self-centered boob.
I never liked the people who worked for the McCain campaign. And given Steve Schmidt worked for Schwartzeneger and is responsible for convincing Arnie to move left of center I have to wonder how much Schmidt was responsible for some of the bonehead decisions? I also disliked Rick Davis and it was Mark Saltier, who convinced McCain to make Palin back off Obama -- saying it was "unseemly"... Newt said something very important today, and I had to wonder if it was aimed at McCain.. it had to do with candidates listening too much to advisers and too little to their instincts that got them there in the first place.
As it it, though, Beck's ratings on Fox are skyrocketing ... and very quickly at that. Did you see him on Redeye last night?
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