Mmmm... pork!
All right, hang onto your seat for this one! Today the House passed a $410 billion spending bill for the rest of the fiscal year, which runs seven months through September. Now, this is separate from the $787 billion stimulus bill. But here is the kicker. Tucked into this new bill, earmarks -- and lots of them.
Now, here's some of the gems -- $59 million for Pacific salmon research, $1.76 million dollars for a honeybee lab in Texas, $400,000 to train teachers how to stop kids from bullying each other and $200,000 for removing tattoos from gang members.
3 comments:
I'd be happy to remove the tattoos at no charge.
Our liberal friends and family who voted for Obama will soon be thinking..."Oh well, I voted for Obama because everybody else was....."
They know not what they've done.
Meanwhile...
Nav7 is out of commission on Digg for posting a thread about the Baal Worshipping Obama float making it's way through Germany.
Looked like the modern day golden calf.
Man...it feels good to be once again selected to put my nose in the corner. In another three years,...might it be brown shirts coming to the door?
Cheers,
Nav7
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST:
It is one thing to swallow 8,000 earmarks. It is another for the president to stand up in the Congress last night and to pretend he's a champion of those who fight earmarks.
What he said last night was "The stimulus package I passed has no earmarks," and the next sentence he said was "And the budget next year has no earmarks."
Now, he left out the sentence in the middle, which was that "The budget I'm going to submit in two days has 8,000 of them, including an earmark for the reduction of pig odor in Louisiana," which could be a worthy cause. I'm not sure.
It is the most egregious sleight of hand, because a viewer had no idea what was left out here. And it is the hypocrisy that I think is disturbing.
The president's calculation obviously is "I will give the gluttons in the House and Senate their earmarks this year, and I will impose on them austerity and chastity next year and all the out years."
I will believe it when I see it.
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