Barack Obama hasn’t requested any federal earmarks for 2009. John McCain, in fact, hopes to banish all earmarks forever. Hillary Rodham Clinton? She’s asked for nearly $2.3 billion in funding for pet projects in 2009, most of that going to her home state of New York, The Hill reports. That’s about three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year, the $837 million secured by Senator Thad Cochran of Mississippi. Clinton's office justified the requests, saying the money is needed after a “staggeri... lire la suite
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Barack Obama hasn’t requested any federal earmarks for 2009. John McCain, in fact, hopes to banish all earmarks forever. Hillary Rodham Clinton? She’s asked for nearly $2. billion in funding for pet projects in 2009, most of that going to her home state of New York, The Hill reports.
From the wire services. First, the loving couple before they realize that they are being photographed: Democratic presidential candidate U. S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and her husband former U. S. President Bill Clinton attend church service at Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa, December 23, 2007.
A first for the Clintons Roughly 52 percent of Dem caucusgoers picked "can bring about needed change" as the most important personal quality of a nominee. One of the key gripes some Democrats have against the Clintons' politics is that they take on a softer form of their opponent's message in hopes of neutralizing it.
Though President Bush and congressional conservatives are seeking “to shame Democrats for failing to kill the practice of earmarking money for pet projects,” an “inconvenient truth” undermining their strategy is the fact that “Democrats last year actually approved fewer earmarks than Republicans did when they ran Congress.
Guest post by DRJ] Dick Morris is a politically well-known former advisor to Bill Clinton and that relationship means he has inside knowledge of the Clintons and the way they triangulate political decisions. After all, Morris is even credited as the inventor of triangulation. That’s why we should take notice when Morris asserts the Clintons are counting on white Americans to vote based on racist, anti-black backlash.
Guest post by DRJ] We all have moments in our lives where we begin to doubt a long-held belief. It seems that Jonathan Chait of Opinion and The New Republic (in an op-ed published in the LA Times) is having one of those moments: Is the right right on the Clintons? Hillary’s campaign tactics are causing some liberals to turn against the couple.
The wording of this story does not make it completely clear, but it appears that President Bush will issue an executive order directing Federal agencies to ignore earmarks that are air dropped into a conference bill and not explicitly voted on. The muddy part is whether it applies to the just-passed porkathon spending bills.
Abbreviated guest post by DRJ] From Porkbusters via the Instapundit, President Bush announces an order on earmarks: On Tuesday, President Bush will issue an Executive Order directing Federal agencies to ignore any future earmark that is not voted on and included in a law approved by Congress.
Despite tough talk on earmarks by President Bush and various conservatives, at the House GOP annual retreat on Friday, members “found an impassioned document on their chairs…making the case that some earmarks are okay. The front of the packet “carried a campaign poster from the 1978 campaign of Rep.
From the SOTU: The people's trust in their Government is undermined by congressional earmarks — special interest projects that are often snuck in at the last minute, without discussion or debate. Last year, I asked you to voluntarily cut the number and cost of earmarks in half. I also asked you to stop slipping earmarks into committee reports that never even come to a vote.
This is interesting. Two different takes onlast night's State of the Union speechfrom the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post - neither of which so much as hints at the executive order that Bush will sign blocking the air dropping of earmarks by Congress. WSJ first: In Ronald Reagan's last year in office, he traveled to Moscow for a summit and signed arms deals.
So the Bill Clinton “race card and overt co-presidency” angle somehow backfired in South Carolina. Whatever. The Clintons like to put it all on the line — the candidacy, remaining.
The words of Sherm Frederick in the Las Vegas Review Journal describing the antics of the Clinton Campaign. He recaps the trail of slime they have left behind them everywhere they go during this election cycle. The Clintons are evil, politically speaking. There's no other way to describe Hillary and Bill going racial on Obama after her Iowa loss.
Please, tell me what this twisted smirky guy has to apologize for? Why is he being suspended again? MSNBC says it has temporarily suspended anchor David Shuster from all NBC news broadcasts — except to offer his on-air apology for what he said about Chelsea Clinton. Shuster outraged the Clinton campaign by saying on the air that the campaign had "pimped out" the Clintons' daughter, when they had her place phone calls to party superdelegates on her mother's behalf.
Pay the ex-staffer troll to “lobby” and collect millions. Or why Hillary suddenly likes GM. Ann Marimow and Matthew Mosk of the Washington Post busted Hillary good today. Clinton has racked up $8 million in earmarks for GM for hybrid, hydrogen and fuel-cell research. Sadly, there is no money for Don Surber for blog research.
posted by Justin Levine] Fred Barnes manages to sum up my own feelings pretty well. Having a Republican in the White House isn’t nearly as important to me as keeping the Clintons out. Fred observes - T]here’s a growing consensus among both Republican and Democratic strategists that Obama would be the stronger general election candidate.
After the Beltway primaries on Tuesday, the Associated Press’s Ron Fournier compiled a different kind of Clinton Enemies List. No, not the people and groups Bill and Hillary consider to be their enemies. Instead, in “Chickens Come Home to Roost,” Fournier listed the types of Democratic Convention superdelegates who have been unhappy with the Clintons for as many as 16 years:
Fails to mention Alaska’s $2 billion surplus or the FBI investigation of his son. America’s worst senator, Republican Ted Stevens of Alaska, is blanketing Alaskan newspapers with a defense of earmarks. Why if not for earmarks, a house would have burned down in Salcha on Jan. had not federal taxpayers funded “equipment and training.
Do You Support Earmarks? Congressman David Obey, the chair of the House Appropriations Committee, is asking his colleagues if they support earmarks this year. Posted at Andrew Roth at 4: PM |
Earmarks Can't Be Swept Under the Rug I love how Congress is paralyzed by the earmark crisis. Next week, Senator Jim DeMint will bravely offer a earmark moratorium amendment to the budget, much to the consternation of his GOP colleagues and Senate Democrats. Most members would prefer that the issue would just quietly go away, but DeMint's amendment will require an up or down vote.