Masterbating in public: Bush and the earmarks

[underpants]

First of all something you never hear on the MSM-the reason people like "Earmarks" (pork) is that they are one time payments. They are not grants in which expenses are tracked and become part of the public record. Once an earmark gets passed the check is cut and the money is gone, what it is used for is anyone's guess.


Okay now for the sad spectacle of last night

Wow was that ever sad. All the false swagger was gone. An empty husk of a weak man just stood there reading lines that were so flat that even Cheney couldn't find any reason to get excited (meaning: very little in the way of threats of death and destruction)

What Bush proposed in regards to earmarks has nothing to do with the current budget or spending. As Frank Rich so aptly described the Bush administration this was nothing more than "empty spectacle". The executive order that Bush signs today is not retroactive, like say telecom immunity, it only applies to NEW earmarks next year. Bush basically punted on second down.


http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22878539
Aides said Bush decided against making his order retroactive to expenditures in the current budget for fear of igniting a political uproar at a time when he is pushing Congress to quickly approve, without changes, his $150 billion proposal to stimulate the economy.

[demnan]

1. It's laughable for Republicans to complain about Earmarks

They have used them massively over the last seven years.

[underpants]

4. 63 to 35

Joe Conason pointed ou tin "Big Lies" that when Republicans are in the majority in the House (where all spending bills originate) they spend, on average, $63 million more in Republican districts than those represented by Democrats. When Dems are in majority they spend $35 more. The Republicans, once again, are totally projecting when it comes to "Tax and spend"

[spanone]

2. it's just another pathetic way for bu$h* to bully the democrats

to pretend to be a fiscal conservative now is beyond laughable

[lapfog_1]

3. And, as Rachael Maddow pointed out last night...

one of the current spending bills up for approval by President Bush has a specific earmark request for Bush's Presidential Library.

(Possibly to buy the one copy of "My Pet Goat" for the actual book section of the "library", along with a few miles of empty shelving that represent the missing emails from his whitehouse staff)