And so it begins......

[boutons_]

"he will do everything he can to stop this practice."

which is total bull . a sideshow to play to the rabble (who ADORE earmarks when they fall into their district), earmarks are not all bad, and add up to 1% of total budget.

Obama never said he was gonna stop earmarks, did he?

"McCain and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin have put attacks on what they call excessive spending at the heart of this year’s Republican presidential campaign. But when Palin served as mayor of her hometown of Wasilla, outside Anchorage, she obtained about $27 million in federal “earmarks” during her last four years in office, according to the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense. And McCain, who has made pork-busting a centerpiece of his maverick pitch for years, singled out for criticism about $3 million worth of those projects in a 2001 statement opposing a transportation spending bill. McCain’s list of “objectionable” spending included a $2.5 million road project for the town that then had a population of 5,500, as well as a $450,000 appropriation for an agricultural processing plant there."


http://cnnwire.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09...marks-in-2001/


I think I read somewhere that Palin submitted requests recently for $200M earmarks for next year. The Earmark Queen.

[RonMexico]

$200M in earmarks doesn't even touch the national congressional average...

[boutons_]

I was too low on Palin's earmark requests, and McSame's assholes lied very high about HUSSEIN's, while the WSJ kept changing their article.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9...262/889/595083

[Wild Cobra]

It is absolutely stupid tho claim a Mayor or Govorner requests 'earmarks' from the federal government. They lobby for projects to be done. They are not part of the process. This does not automatically make it an earmark, or mean they have any control over the process. Earmarks are something that's normally hidden in an unrelated bill. As long as it is disclosed, and voted on by merit, it isn't an earmark.

[Biernutz]

I was too low on Palin's earmark requests, and McSame's assholes lied very high about HUSSEIN's, while the WSJ kept changing their article.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/9...262/889/595083

McCain has no Earmarks --Ever--He walks the walk---match that asshole,