Conservatives lead in earmarks.
Conservatives lead in earmarks.
Congressional conservatives have waged a high-profile war on earmarks this year, only to be undermined by conservatives who enjoy their pet projects. Today, Citizens Against Government Waste released their 2008 Pig Book, a database of earmarks used in the 110th Congress. The top earmarkers? Republicans:
In the House, Republicans have attacked Democratic Rep. John Murtha for delivering a pile of special-interest funds to his western Pennsylvania district.
But according to the report, two House Republicans bested Murtha: Roger Wicker of Mississippi, who recently became a U.S. senator, and Rep. Bill Young of Florida. The two scored $176.3 million and $169.5 million in earmarks respectively, beating Murtha’s $159.1 million.
In the Senate, the top three big spenders were Republicans, who together scored about $1.8 billion in home-state projects. Those senators are: Thad Cochran, the senior Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee, Richard Shelby of Alabama, and Ted Stevens of Alaska
In addition, the three House Republicans sponsoring legislation calling for a moratorium all engaged in the practice.
Total cost of all pork in 2008: $17.2 Billion; Cost of War in Iraq in 2008: $144 Billion
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Yup. Cost of war in 2008 almost 9 times that of pork. Of course what isn’t mentioned is the pork is for the whole year and the $177B for the war is for three months and counting, most of it off budget and coming from your Social Security account and China.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 pmJust like the red states, they are the welfare recipients who ask me to pay their bills.
April 2nd, 2008 at 10:56 pmconservatives lead in earmarks, lies, treason, racism, ignorance, bigotry, misogyny, thievery, perversion, pedophilia, corruption, fearmongering, mass-murder, rape, and shitty taste in clothing.
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:01 pmAren’t the new, Bush/Rove-era GOP/Republican/conservative values, “war, death, debt, big government, and party over country?”
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:06 pmCNN’s The Situation Room said a Democratic congressman got a $3 million program for “youth golf” inside the Defense bill. But across the screen, they had a HUGE “$3,000,000,000″, which of course is not 3 millon, but 3 BILLION!
April 2nd, 2008 at 11:27 pmWell, they are the Tom-Delay-you-gotta-pay-to-play people and they need to deliver for their pay, don’t they? You gotta problem with that?
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:05 amDebt Service!
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:07 am$7,556,660 for grape and wine research. There is no pressing need for taxpayers to pay for this research.
$4,840,875 for wood utilization research in 10 states requested by nine representatives and 16 senators. Among the research areas is “refinement of processing technology for laminated veneer lumber for furniture, flooring, and other specialty industries.” As if no one has ever done that before. This research has cost taxpayers $90.8
million since 1985.
To think all that money could have been used to improve our Education System. Money that the Feds keeping cutting back on. What a waste and what a tradegy.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:15 amRepublican Pigs can’t survive without federal pork.
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:30 am$500,000 by House Appropriations Committee Ranking Member
Jerry Lewis (R-Calif.) for unspecified upgrades to Barracks Row, an upscale neighborhood eight blocks from the U.S. Capitol Building. Rep. Lewis felt it necessary to appropriate funds even though the Barracks Row website claims “business is booming.” Lewis stated, “…the return on the federal investment is difficult to measure, but it’s truly immeasurable in my mind’s eye.” The picture becomes
clearer when one learns that Rep. Lewis’wife, who is also his chief of staff, owns a residence four blocks from Barracks Row.
WoW is anyone surprised!!! I love the way they try to justify taking our money and blowing it..
April 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 amThose damned big government Republicans.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:23 amConservatives lead in earmarks.
Conservatives also lead in hypocrisy.
April 3rd, 2008 at 8:42 am.