Here we have a leader of the Republican party (#2) writing a $200 million dollar earmark into a bill 3 days after Republicans pledged to stop all earmarks. Typical.

Only three days after GOP senators and senators-elect renounced earmarks, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, got himself a whopping $200 million to settle an Arizona Indian tribe's water rights claim against the government.

Kyl slipped the measure into a larger bill sought by President Barack Obama and passed by the Senate on Friday to settle claims by black farmers and American Indians against the federal government.

PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP leader reaps $200 million
On a similar note, when are the Senate and Congressional Republicans going to give up the state-run health care benefits that they find so offensive (remarkably similar to Obamacare BTW)? They should opt in to the same system that everyone else uses, seeing as they are such strong advocates of the system... yeah right.
bigsby Reviewed by bigsby on . Republican Double Speak (what's new) Here we have a leader of the Republican party (#2) writing a $200 million dollar earmark into a bill 3 days after Republicans pledged to stop all earmarks. Typical. On a similar note, when are the Senate and Congressional Republicans going to give up the state-run health care benefits that they find so offensive (remarkably similar to Obamacare BTW)? They should opt in to the same system that everyone else uses, seeing as they are such strong advocates of the system... yeah right. Rating: 5