McCain Willing To Overlook Palin’s Quest For Earmarks To Study Harbor Seal DNA
McCain Willing To Overlook Palin’s Quest For Earmarks To Study Harbor Seal DNA
At a rally in Virginia yesterday with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin at his side, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) launched into one of his routine stump lines about earmarks, saying “We’re never going to spend $3 million again to study the DNA of bears in Montana.” “I don’t know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue, but it’s not going to happen again,” joked McCain. Watch it:
McCain’s recitation of this canned line is ironic in the presence of his new running mate. As Politico’s Ben Smith reported yesterday, Palin sought a similar earmark this year to fund research on the “genetics of harbor seals”:
“We’re not going to spend $3 million of your tax dollars to study the DNA of bears in Montana,” McCain has said during this year’s campaign, referring to a study he’s mocked for years of whether grizzlies need to keep their status as an endangered species.
Palin, meanwhile, has requested $3.2 million to be spent in part researching the “genetics of harbor seals,” in one of the state’s many requests for federal funding of research into Alaska’s fauna.
Perhaps if McCain wants to know whether the harbor seal study is “a paternity issue or a criminal issue,” he could simply ask his running mate.
Additionally, this isn’t the first time McCain’s efforts to make earmarks “famous” have conflicted with Palin. CNN reports today that “McCain criticized two of his future running mate’s hometown projects in broadsides in 2001 against congressional ‘pork-barrel’ spending”:
In a 2001 statement opposing a transportation spending bill McCain singled out for criticism about $3 million worth of those projects. 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.
The McCain-Palin campaign defended the conflict in a statement, saying that “Palin was forced to work within the current system to obtain critical funding for a growing city.” Somehow, projects that McCain once considered “objectionable” are now deemed “critical” by his campaign.
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Really, John? And why shouldn’t we know everything there is to know about the #1 threat to America?
Strong on national defense my ass!
September 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pmThe Gospel of St. John of Our Lady of the Blessed BBQ:
When is “working within the current system” good? When the person you’re counting on to deliver you the White House did it.
When is “working within the current system” bad? When everyone who’s pissed you off did it.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:54 pm“I don’t know if that was a paternity issue or a criminal issue, but it’s not going to happen again,” joked McCain.
– – Good grief, McCain and Palin are reciting their tired, hackneyed “comedy” routines ad nauseum, a practice that was stale back during Vaudeville. But then, for McCain that’s literally yesterday.
September 11th, 2008 at 1:58 pmDrip, drip, drip.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm“Really, John? And why shouldn’t we know everything there is to know about the #1 threat to America?”
nice one, toaster! :).
Besides the hypocrisy McCain is demonstrating here he also illustrates a sneering contempt for science and an incapacity to grasp anything beyond dogma.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm.
I think we need to study the DNA of Bristol’s baby…
… I’m just saying.
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September 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm$3.2 million to be spent in part researching the “genetics of harbor seals”?!?!?!
How mavericky!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:02 pm.
McBush says:
… er something like that.
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September 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pmAh, Mcflipper/McPalin speaks with forked tongue again.Why study something Palin knows was created and not evolved?
September 11th, 2008 at 2:04 pmThis is great Sarah Palin the maverick who is going to ride into Washington and clean up all those earmarks!!!
and pigs fly.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xbn_AXlaeY
September 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pmMcCain and Palin lie so baldly that it is breathtaking. Whats worse is that their are plenty of people out there who either don’t care or believe it.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:06 pmMcCain and Palin are Intellectually and Morally Bankrupct! They are unfit for the office of President and Vice President.
Money spent on knowledge and understanding?
Not in a nation run by the dumbest of the dumbed-down greed-monsters.
But you owe it to yourself to see IN PERSON an aircraft carrier or the marble “castles” of Washington DC.
It’s obvious our government LOVES to throw ENORMOUS SUMS of money around when the the wind blows the “right” direction.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:07 pmPerhaps the harbor seals swam in from Russia? Or they could be studying only the terrorist harbor seals. Either way, watch for a McCain claim that this is really a national defense appropriation.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:08 pm“The McCain-Palin campaign defended the conflict in a statement, saying that “Palin was forced to work within the current system to obtain critical funding for a growing city.” Somehow, projects that McCain once considered “objectionable” are now deemed “critical” by his campaign.” Spin, spin, spin your Republican asses off!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:09 pm.
Of course…
It’s not LIPSTICK on PORK when it’s earmarks for Republicans… NO?
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September 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pmGrampy McSame says – My friends back in the day we had our ear marks and we loved them, yes sir, I have plenty of ear marks now, and so does Georgette Palin, I like her ear marks, I just nibble on her ear now and then and keep those marks visible, now other people’s ear marks I don’t like, just my wife to be Palin, now she tells me that she doesn’t like my ear marks, no sir, she calls them liver spots, what ever that means, now some people are calling her McPalin, that’s just not right, “Mc” means “son of”, now does son of Palin make sense, no sir, now my name though means “Son of Cain”, which can also mean “Son of the Devil”, luckily the media has not picked up on that, it would blow my cover, speaking of blowing, my next wife, Shara does a great…opps, Cindy watching me, act natural…I think I loaded my under-roos.
Oh course you’re against ear marks, Grampy, you are also against telling the truth about anything either.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:11 pmDon’t let the facts get in the way of an overused yuk-yuk line.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:12 pmI bet we never hear that “bear DNA” line ever again. Oops!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:12 pm5th Estate Says:
Besides the hypocrisy McCain is demonstrating here he also illustrates a sneering contempt for science and an incapacity to grasp anything beyond dogma.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
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Exactly. It’s just a continuation of the Republican War on Science. Watch for McCain to back away from his earlier stances on evolution and climate change soon, and introduce a bit more doubt into what he says about them.
Not to mention that $3 million in the Federal budget is beyond pocket change. It’s a bit of pocket lint.
Pocket fluff, even. You need it to catch the babel fish.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:13 pmWell, he’s already made Palin “famous” as promised, so now he just has to “shame” her, as he says he will do, for asking for that Seal DNA money. How dare she!
His own campaign will have to run an ad against him for being sexist towards her though.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:14 pmMcCain and Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain and Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
McCain and Palin are LIARS, HYPOCRITES and FRAUDS.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:20 pm“I’m John McCain and I approve this message”.
Send this to EVERYONE.
Quickly.
NOW.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:21 pmI’d like to see these two slime balls campaigining in the backwoods of Alaska and have both their arses run off by a big old brown or polar bear.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:21 pmtony and ldo
McCain and the neocons know they have the media, cheating voting machines and quite possibly rigged polling.
Here we go again and what are we going to do November 5th and there after when we once again find our election was stolen?
votersunite.org
bradblog.org
blackboxvoting.org
September 11th, 2008 at 2:22 pmsatirev,
What concerns me is the lack of leadership from the Democratic Leadership on this matter. They’ve known for years that electronic voting/computing is hackable yet refused to correct HAVA.
The fix is in people…
What matters is who counts your votes.
If the GOP wins… the Dem’s will cry foul.
If the Dem’s win… the GOP will cry foul.
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September 11th, 2008 at 2:25 pmIt doesn’t matter. The hypocrisy and greed doesn’t matter. It’s the sound bites that matter, thanks to our dysfunctional media. They’ll just keep saying false things over and over again, and the sheeple will swallow it up….
Cheers,
September 11th, 2008 at 2:26 pm“You will, might, could possibly know their name! That you can piggy bank on, my friends.”
September 11th, 2008 at 2:26 pmDamn those criminal, whambamthankyoumaam seals anyhoo!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pmI agree the election hinges on the harbor seal issue.
But seriously, I am worried about the
September 11th, 2008 at 2:29 pmelectronic voting machines. Hacking an
election cannot be good.
I’m proudly wearing my ‘McCain – 1908′ T-shirt. Just for shits & giggles I stopped by the local RNC outlet to feign interest.
The looks I got? – Priceless!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:30 pm.
L I P S T I C K
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwQ7hewpWRA
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September 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pmYet another fabrication from McCain/Palin? What a surprise!
McCon-Pullin “Fabric ‘08 America”
September 11th, 2008 at 2:37 pmIt is a sad day when in America we must take into account the ‘Opposite and Inverse’ quotient of what a certain party’s presidential nominee put forth to the public.
The ‘Opposite and Inverse’ quotient is not new, yet its application to an entire political party is unprecedented and quite an astonishing feat.
The ‘Opposite and Inverse’ quotient is self explainable, though its history may not be.
It was originally used in a variety of stand up comedic acts, but has gained popularity in politics over the past eight years through the Bush Administration continual usage.
The ‘Opposite and Inverse’ quotient in its basic form is as follows:
Up is down, black is white. Inherent characteristics are transposed on outside bodies. What we hold to be common truths are now in question, and each opposite (untruths) are regarded as legitimate. The ‘Opposite and Inverse’ quotient used in it’s previous context would require a statement be followed with such words as: “yeah, yeah, that’s the ticket!” Which would undeniably verify to listeners that the actual statement was a farce.
Due to this party’s continual usage of the ‘Opposite and Inverse’ quotient without a signifying statement to alert listeners to the obvious falsehood, listeners are then required to identify the intent and accuracy of the statements made.
Some in the public have been referring to this phenomenon as “lying,” and this too may be a new “truth.” However, the comedic history of its usage has left us without adequate transition time for the 2008 election.
I, therefore warn the public to assume any and everything that is said by the republican party, it’s members and leadership, is entirely the opposite of what has been said.
September 11th, 2008 at 2:38 pmHey my wife wears LIPSTICK too, she is qualified to be President of the United States. I can’t wait to see what it will be like to be FIRST DUDE!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:39 pmWait till 2012, my wife is running for President because she wears LIPSTICK, is a MOM, has two CHILDREN, can drive a car, and works. We went to Canada so she knows foreign policy. We even went to Washington DC so she has experience. Man, she should win by a LANDSLIDE!
WHO KNOWS, THE SHADOW KNOWS!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:42 pmThe Shadow Says:
Wait till 2012, my wife is running for President because she wears LIPSTICK, is a MOM, has two CHILDREN, can drive a car, and works. We went to Canada so she knows foreign policy. We even went to Washington DC so she has experience. Man, she should win by a LANDSLIDE!
WHO KNOWS, THE SHADOW KNOWS!
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Well Lamont there is a good chance I would vote for your wife. I would vote for Spongebob over another Bush or McCain.
September 11th, 2008 at 3:24 pmSo Sarah Palin is a Washington Lobbyist-hating, earmark-declining, lipstick-wearing hockey mom? Are we sure?
As someone famously said “You are entitled to your own Opinions but you are not entitled to your own Facts”. And the facts are that from 1996 to 2002 as Mayor of Wasilla (population about 6,000 and, according to the 2000 Census, 84.56% white) Palin aggressively sought earmarks for Wasilla, going so far as to hire big-time Washington LOBBYISTS to squeeze as much taxpayer money out of Washington as possible. Palin and her hired Lobbyists were so good that they managed to get $600,000 for a bus facility, $1.75 Million for dispatch center equipment, $2.4 Million for water and sewer facilities, and much, much more.
According to Taxpayer’s for Common Sense, in Palin’s last 4 years as Mayor she netted the 6,000 residents of Wasilla a whopping $27 million in earmarks! That $27 million in earmarks includes the money for the Bridge to Nowhere which Palin backed when she was running for governor in 2006 before she was against it in 2007 after wasteful spending watchdog groups attacked it! But here’s the kicker–Palin KEPT the money for the Bridge to Nowhere.
This year Alaska had more requests for earmarks per person than any other state. The fact is that Palin asked for $256 Million in earmarks her first year in office and for $195 Million her second year.
Because Palin has such an anemic public service record and she refuses to be interviewed and answer in-depth question, in order to know what she truly stands for we can rely only on her actual past actions rather than her future promises and hype.
But I have seen with my own eyes that she does wear lipstick.
http://thelieshavenotimproved.blogspot.com/
September 11th, 2008 at 5:21 pm