Friday, February 15, 2008
In terms of securing earmarks, Hillary Clinton (D-NY) ranks among the top ten in the Senate ($340 million) while Barack Obama (D-IL) ranks in the bottom 25% of the Senate ($91 million). John McCain (R-AZ) has rejected earmarks entirely. Since becoming the majority party, Democrats are responsible for 57% of the $18.3 billion spent on earmarks. (Washington Post)
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President Bush has never shown much distaste for Congressional pork.
But in his last year in office, with his party out of power on Capitol Hill, he declared Monday that he had had enough.
In the last seven years he has signed spending bills containing about 55,000 earmarks worth more than $100 billion for projects....
In his State of the Union address Monday night, Mr. Bush threatened to veto future spending bills unless Congress cut in half the number of earmarks, which now total more than 10,000 items and nearly $20 billion annually....
Mr. Bush was notably silent on the subject until after his fellow Republicans lost control of Congress in the 2006 midterm elections. And, now that his power has waned, his threats are almost certain not to matter.
It's almost springtime. Get out of your cars. Barack Obama is your new bicycle.
He's very charismatic.
JOHN MCCAIN FOR PRESIDENT
- forever shaken for ANONYMOUS
OMG Hillary is an EVIL BICYCLE.
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