Congress and Earmarks.....

[Psycho4Bud]

Pick the assclown of your choice and HOPEFULLY together we can cover ALL of the waste!

Lets start off with good ol' Congressman MURTHA.......

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcSYOo7HXy0&feature=related[/YOUTUBE]

Have a good one!:s4:

Psycho4Bud Reviewed by Psycho4Bud on 06-09-2008. Congress and Earmarks..... Pick the assclown of your choice and HOPEFULLY together we can cover ALL of the waste!:mad: Lets start off with good ol' Congressman MURTHA....... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcSYOo7HXy0&feature=related Have a good one!:s4: Rating: 5

[foxfire342]

That's a good democrat for you.

[rebgirl420]

Ahhhhh Murtha!

I live in Pennsylvania and he is everywhere! I can't stand him. He's the worst of them all.

159.1 Million in earmarks and private bullshit. WITH TAX PAYER MONEY!

I wish it was 1776 so we could tar and feather this jerk.

[Psycho4Bud]

Senator Barack Obama on Thursday released a list of $740 million in earmarked spending requests that he had made over the last three years, and his campaign challenged Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to do the same.

The list included $1 million for a hospital where Mr. Obamaâ??s wife works, money for several projects linked to campaign donors and support for more than 200 towns, civic institutions and universities in Illinois.

But as the Senate debated a bill to restrict the controversial method of paying for home-state projects â?? a measure defeated Thursday evening â?? Mr. Obamaâ??s presidential campaign also said that only about $220 million worth of his requests had been approved by Congress. And among those that had been killed were his request in 2006 for $1 million for an expansion of the University of Chicago Medical Center, where Mr. Obamaâ??s wife, Michelle, is a vice president.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us...20of%20Chicago

My daily nomination for, "Assclown for Earmarks". :thumbsup:

Have a good one!:s4:

[thcbongman]

There's no doubt Obama is guilty of requesting wasteful pork notably requesting $5.9M for the Field museum in Chicago while they had a $30M surplus. However that was rejected. Overall last year, 91M of his earmarks was approved, which puts him in the least-spending quarter percentile of senators

However to say McCain never requested pork is incorrect. An example in 2006, He proposed legislation to give University of Arizona $10 million to create a center to honor Chief Justice William Reinquist. While it's not an earmark and was separate piece of legislation that eventually died, his doesn't meet his own strict stance on saying he never requested pork or an earmark.

McCain also has people on his campaign staff and lobbyists hosting fundraisers who aided in securing earmarks. McCain can say whatever he wants, but if his staff is filled with people who are apart of the earmark culture, nothing will change.

This isn't to say Obama is right because he isn't, . At least McCain is known for his battles with the appropriation committee on wasteful earmarks. He also didn't request any.

However it seems there's blind bias that earmarks is solely requested by democrats. It's a bipartisan issue. Take a look:

Top 10 earmarks recipients in the house:

Top Ten House Earmark Recipients
Member
Party
State
Solo Earmarks
Solo and With Other Lawmakers

Wicker
R
MS
$6,992,000
$177,988,500

Murtha
D
PA
$159,973,200
$176,397,200

Young, C.W. Bill
R
FL
$103,863,000
$169,073,000

Hoyer
D
MD
$13,777,259
$139,128,759

Lewis, Jerry
R
CA
$110,019,000
$137,475,000

Edwards
D
TX
$42,356,000
$128,917,980

Berry
D
AR
$7,251,000
$123,890,600

Visclosky
D
IN
$69,962,200
$113,653,000

Skelton
D
MO
$44,000,000
$111,864,000

Dicks
D
WA
$53,111,000
$106,006,550

Top 10 senate recipients of earmarks:

Top Ten House Earmark Recipients
Member
Party
State
Solo Earmarks
Solo and With Other Lawmakers

Wicker
R
MS
$6,992,000
$177,988,500

Murtha
D
PA
$159,973,200
$176,397,200

Young, C.W. Bill
R
FL
$103,863,000
$169,073,000

Hoyer
D
MD
$13,777,259
$139,128,759

Lewis, Jerry
R
CA
$110,019,000
$137,475,000

Edwards
D
TX
$42,356,000
$128,917,980

Berry
D
AR
$7,251,000
$123,890,600

Visclosky
D
IN
$69,962,200
$113,653,000

Skelton
D
MO
$44,000,000
$111,864,000

Dicks
D
WA
$53,111,000
$106,006,550

[rebgirl420]

^ 14 out of the 20 senators you mentioned were Democrats.

Good stuff

[thcbongman]

Top 10 representatives and Top 10 Senators.

If you truncate the bottom 5 on each list, you'd have 3 of 5 republican representatives in the top 5 and 4 of 5 of republican senators as top earmark requestors. Not exactly good :P

It's not a good thing for either party. It's a testimony of the abuse of earmarks by both parties.

[thcbongman]

Oh crap, I realized I copied the same list twice, my bad

Member
Party
State
Solo Earmarks
Solo and With Other Lawmakers

Cochran
R
MS
$289,793,000
$837,256,500

Landrieu
D
LA
$103,303,050
$469,691,110

Stevens
R
AK
$389,043,750
$456,902,750

Bond
R
MO
$128,227,400
$454,632,500

Shelby
R
AL
$191,099,800
$426,492,200

Inouye
D
HI
$229,775,440
$414,327,330

Byrd
D
WV
$333,024,438
$407,360,438

Murray
D
WA
$141,007,117
$376,489,467

Clinton
D
NY
$98,000
$342,403,455

Durbin
D
IL
$39,313,300
$335,181,200

[Psycho4Bud]

Nice to see that list but why not centralize on a person/project of waste one at a time....really get to the b.s. by BOTH parties under the numbers.

Have a good one!:s4:

[Psycho4Bud]

Assclown of the day.........

[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UdYDgr8XUA[/YOUTUBE]

Have a good one!:s4: