Tag: "Pork"
A Winning Formula: Republicans Fight. Reid Retreats. America Wins.
I’ve been hard on the GOP the past few days for their cheese-eating surrender monkey ways on the tax deal, but tonight they did something very right. The Senate’s very own Gollum, Harry Reid, tried to bull rush the Omnibus Spending Bill through the Senate tonight, but he didn’t even get a good run on [...]
Though It Fuels Your Cash Machine, We Will Not Eat Your Pork so Green.
In this morning’s Clearing the Browser Tabs post, I wrote this: If you were on the fence about the President’s tax deal compromise, the amount of useless pork in it should knock you onto the “no” side. Well, I have more details and I don’t think you’re going to like them. Jamie Dupree broke out the [...]
Dishonesty and Insults Are Not the Ways to Earn Our Trust, Senator Inhofe
Republican Senator and conservative icon James Inhofe has disgraced himself and his conservative beliefs today. In an op-ed that appeared at National Review’s The Corner blog he chose to defend earmarks not with principle and defensible logic but with half-truths, ridiculous assertions, and a main argument so risible that I find it hard to believe [...]
Rand Paul: Now that I’ve Been Elected, I Have Discovered that Earmarks Aren’t All that Bad!
I am as eager as the next conservative to see the Republicans tear into government spending. I want to see Obamacare tossed out a window of the Capitol like an old mattress. I want to see department budgets crushed. I want to see the bureaucrats driven before us. I want to hear the lamentations of [...]
Smaller Government Begins with an Earmark Ban
Marc Thiessen has an interesting column in today’s Washington Post on earmarks and the Republican Party’s reluctance to walk away from them for good. He makes a number of good points, the best of which only gets a brief mention at the very beginning. Over the weekend, Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.), an earmark opponent, posted this [...]
Don’t Blame the Guy For Nibbling After the Trough Was Filled
Tad DeHaven, writing at the Cato Institute’s blog, has an interesting post on fiscal hypocrisy and the Republican Party. The Washington Times gained access to some letters written by GOP lawmakers to the Department of Agriculture in which they tried to get money from the very Stimulus Bill they castigated juse weeks or months before. DeHaven [...]
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