Posted on 03/03/2009 10:27:47 AM PST by cc2k
Compare that list to this list:
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a government spending watchdog, has released its breakdown of the biggest earmarkers.
Following are the top 20 Senate earmark recipients — 12 Democrats, 8 Republicans.
1. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.): $122,804,900
2 Richard Shelby (R-Ala.): $114,484,250
3. Kit Bond (R-Mo.): $85,691,491
4. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.): $76,899,425
5. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.): $75,908,475
6. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska): $74,000,750
7. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa): $66,860,000
8. James Inhofe (R-Okla.): $53,133,500
9. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.): $51,186,000
10. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii): $46,380,205
11. Patty Murray (D-Wash.): $39,228,250
12. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.): $36,547,100
13. Pat Leahy (D-Vt.): $36,161,125
14. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.): $35,577,250
15. Robert Casey (D-Pa.): $27,169,750
16. Harry Reid (D-Nev.): $26,628,613
17. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.): $25,320,000
18. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.): $23,832,000
19. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.): $21,952,250
20. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), retired: $19,588,625
http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2009/03/who-put-pork-in-omnibus-bill-senates.html
That explains some of the unexpected Republicans votes against McCain’s amendment. They were bought and paid for.
Just sent my letter of disgust to Senator BigNut RINO from Utah.
How about Sessions not voting
typical
“STOP showing up...
STOP voting....”
I have wondered the same thing. What would happen? What would be the consequences?
Are you delusional?
You'll have to share the evidence that convinced you of that.
What POSSIBLE hope was there to restrain spending -- when the Democrats have ONLY that as their platform to consolidate power, destroy incentive to work, evaporate the middle class's savings and reward their welfare dependent electorate?
Obama and his Thugs are focused on one objective -- Power, Socialism, Nationalized Means of Production......
But not much good. Any given RINO seems to be trying when he or she suppors one good measure or another, but you can count on the rest of the RINOs to help defeat it. How many successful conservative efforts have the RINOs been behind?
Since it only takes a couple of RINO Senators to pass the liberal agenda, they can play rope-a-dope forever. For any given liberal bill, 2 RINOs can support it, the others can be against. Cycling the YES votes around the group can give each an 80% or so ACU record, and they still guarantee that the liberal agenda passes.
So, I'm supporting a one-strike-rule for RINOs now.
Excuse you! There are no stupid questions. I thought I was having a discussion with someone who had mutual respect, rather than juvenile, reactionary thought. Guess I was wrong.
I am always open to learning. If I am wrong about something I will reconsider and change where needed, rather than be so invested in being right. Truth matters as do my conservative values.
Maybe they were just showing Johnny the effect of bipartisanship.
In the "politically correct" world there are no stupid questions... In the real world there are plenty of stupid questions, and when someone is backed into a corner is when they usually come out...
You want to fight crime, don't you? You want to lower spending, don't you? You want lower taxes, don't you? You want to save lives, don't you? We should do it for the children, shouldn't we?
Sorry, I don't play P.C.
And harking back to the original thread... McCain is no government waste crusader, he lost all credibility on the issue with the TARP bailouts, and he has helped the other side immensely in the years of wasteful "bipartisan" spending that has driven our country to it knees!
McCain is not a RINO on all issues. On this issue and defense McCain is OK and I am grateful for what he tried today
>McCain is not a RINO on all issues...
Well that is comforting.
Really, what nerve that guy has......:)
Thanks to the libtards!
Senator Sessions did not vote today because his mother passed away. The funeral is tomorrow.
I agree.
A lot of these highway projects, etc cost millions more than what they should because of the federal funding.
Look at the ‘Big Dig’. Billions spent over two decades, and it was obsolete before the first car drove through the tunnel.
Getting back to what I was saying about the fire departments though. A lot of these small volunteer departments do not have the resources to raise enough cash to buy new equipment especially something like a new ladder truck which costs about one million a pop excluding tools and equipment. The state provides some money for such purchases, but that never covers the full difference between what the community and the department can raise and the cost of the truck itself.
Funny that Steele has stronger words for Rush than for those RINOS.
And if you live in a state dominated by demoncRATS (CA) you need to move to a state represented by people with ethics and principles.
In the words of Ronald Reagan, “Trust, but verify”. I know those words were spoken in reference to the former Soviet Union. However, given the climate today within our own country and the attempts being made to destroy our nation from within, we must employ these words against our own institutions.
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