GOP: “Our Earmarks Are Different”
The hypocrisy level reached new heights this week with the debate over the left-over budget bill from last year. Senator McCain launched an anti-earmark effort, trying to delete over 8500 pet projects that cost...
Tagged: Earmarks
Enamored with pork
The New Republic made a liberal case for earmarks recently that I thought had a flawed logic to it. The thrust of their argument is that several progressive reforms – the tax simplification in...
Earmarks or Pillowmarks?
Senator Arlen Specter is the latest victim of the Republican earmarks/lobbying scandal: The Pennsylvania Republican lawmaker’s statement was in response to a USA Today report published Thursday which said Specter had succeeded 13 times...
Old-Fashioned Pork Spending
I kept laughing my entire way through reading the UF campus paper this weekend. It turns out, the Student Government literally got into the act of pork spending – that is, paying for a...
Watching Sleaze Grow
Watching the corruption spread like an epidemic is at times interesting and at other times more painful than watching grass grow or my kittens sleep. In a new report by the Citizens for Responsibility...
