McCain: Palin is a federal funding hog!!!

[Waiting For Everyman]

Palin's Earmarks Called Objectionable Pork by McCain
Eric Schmeltzer, Huffington Post
Septermber 3, 2008

To quote Will Ferrell in Zoolander, "Doesn't anybody notice this? I FEEL LIKE I'M TAKING CRAZY PILLS!"

As part of her executive experience that the McCain campaign so highly promotes, Sarah Palin requested millions in earmarks from Congress. Three of them, totaling nearly $2 million, were classified as "objectionable pork" by.... John McCain.

Reports the Chicago Tribune:

"This year, Palin, who has been governor for nearly 22 months, defended earmarking as a vital part of the legislative system. "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship," she wrote in a newspaper column.

In 2001, McCain's list of spending that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla. The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 spending bill for an emergency communications center in town -- one that local law enforcement has said is redundant and creates confusion.

McCain also criticized $450,000 set aside for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla that was requested during Palin's tenure as mayor and cleared Congress soon after she left office in 2002. The funding was provided to help direct locally grown produce to schools, prisons and other government institutions, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan watchdog group."

Come on, now.

Look, this means one of two things. Either John McCain barely looked into Palin's background and didn't realize he called her a Federal funding hog in the past. Or, McCain's team did vet her, knew she worked for everything McCain stood against, and he didn't give a damn that she wasn't the reformer he would make her out to be. If that's true, then he's saying he doesn't care because this was a craven political selection, not one based on principle or ability.

Whichever it is, it sure isn't good for McCain. But, he does need to answer this important question - did he vet her, or is he simply misrepresenting her to the nation?

Oh, and this has nothing to do with sexism. It has to do with the man topping the ticket, not doing his due diligence on his first major presidential decision.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-schmeltzer/palins-earmarks-called-ob_b_123582.html

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0,5932587.story

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So McCain thinks Sarah's the Pork Princess, does he? I bet that'll steam her up, if she ever gets a clue. I think I'll refer to her that way from now on, just to be obnoxious. Maybe Porky Palin for short.

Gotta love it! I guess this is just another example of McLame's 2001-self colliding with his new 2008 cheesier version again.

I'm saving this one. :thumbsup:

Porky has really stepped in it by mouthing off about earmarks b/c she arranged this Wasilla money through... wait for it... a lobbyist tied to Stevens and Abramoff. They both have a little heat on them these days... the blowback to her from this getting major attention right now b/c of her own VP spotlight, might get dicey. Ya think?

Heck Porky might end up in the slammer before it's all said and done, if she plays her cards right.

Way to go reforming corruption, Porky! You demented aging cheerleader.(Maybe she meant she'd reform herself. Nah!)

She's really stupid. Just for ambition, she puts focus on herself KNOWING two things: 1) her teen daughter's pregnant; and 2) she was involved in Stevens and Abramoff deals. What an idiot! And THEN, that's not good enough... then, she has to strut around calling herself the sqeaky-clean, transparent reformer!!! OMG!

Well I'll hand it to her, she IS just like DeLay and Gingrich and Gramm and Cheney and Chimpie and McLame, and all the rest of "the guys". I wonder if she's a guy in drag too? Maybe we'll be hearing that next. God only knows...

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wow. That is a great find....

[catgirl]

2. Kick!!

[kurth_]

3. Looks like Reagan married the welfare queen