Posted on 03/29/2010 3:05:12 PM PDT by ejdrapes
Monday, March 29, 2010
3 Republicans Break Promise Against FY2011 Earmarks
Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 3:01 PM
Three House Republicans have ignored their caucus' ban on requesting earmarks this year. Rep. Joseph Cao, R-La., has requested projects totaling more than $500 million for his district.
In addition, Rep. Don Young, R-Alaska, and Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, have also requested millions of dollars worth of earmarks despite the party's moratorium.
The earmark issue is a redherring and quite frankly is being done at the behest of McCain.
There is the valid argument of past on the way the earmarks were traded between Congressman, but you don’t throw everything out, you cherry-pick the bad earmarks and get rid of them.
The issue is the here and now on what the GOP is trying and it is only being done for one year so it is being done as a politcal ploy for political gain and that smells.
Well even if a one year “ploy” I’ll take a year of good behavior over permanent acquiesing to taxpayer highway robbery. But I think the GOP learned its lesson from 2006 and realize they need a sustained program to end earmarks, no matter who it’s being done at the behest of. If McCain is behind it, then good on him. He’s always been consistently good on earmarks. But if it just a temporary repentence, then the GOP will have to be taught again.
He is the Pork King of Texas, he requests more earmarks than any other Texas Congressman and he is one of the top total pork requesters.
At the very least, there are Democrats in Texas. You could pick any one of them and I would be surprised if you didn't find each seniority-equivalent Rat had more per annual budget on the earmark list over the last ten years than Paul. But that would mean you cared about doing anything but maligning Paul, which I doubt. One could read a little about Kay Bailey Hutchinson or...um...EVERY TEXAS CONGRESSMAN BUT ONE IN 2008 (back when the GOP had enough Congressional votes to actually influence something) if one cared about the facts!
Kick them out of office.
The GOP is no different than the DEMS...time for a new solution to our problem with our corrupt politicians...
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