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GOP Senate Idiots

By: Kyle-MI (Diary)  |  March 3rd, 2009 at 01:49 PM  | 

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First, thumbs up to Sen. McCain.  One of his few endearing qualities as a GOP candidate was his record and stance against wasteful government spending especially against pork in general and earmarks in specific.  It is good to see he is continuing that fight as he settles back into his senatorial duties.

On the heals of passing their porkulus bill that funded all kinds of liberal chicanery hiding behind the fig leaf of economic stimulus, Democrats are pushing their next bloated corpse of a spending bill now meant to give regular funding for the federal government.  Depending on new accounts this thing contains 8000 to 9000 earmarks, not hidden pork but deliberate blatant old-fashioned earmarks of the kind that candidate Obama denounced.  In the spirit of bi-partisanship, Sen. McCain took now President Obama at his word, and introduced an amendment to strip the omnibus spending bill of all earmarks.  In a move that surprises no-one the anti-earmark amendment failed along party lines with the majority of big-government pork-loving Democrats voting against it except for two, Bahy of IN and McCaskill of MO.

Unfortunately, not content to let the Democrats own this stinking pile of garbage, nine GOP Senators saw fit to give Democrats cover and vote against this amendment.  In addition to the three idiots who voted for porkulus – Collins & Snowe of ME and Specter of PA – six more GOP senators joined the insanity: Alexander (R-TN), Bennett (R-UT), Bond (R-MO), Cochran (R-MS), Murkowski (R-AK), and Shelby (R-AL).  What are these people thinking?  Do they enjoy being in the minority?  Do they like being powerless?  Do they want a larger Democratic majority?  Did they learn nothing, NOTHING, from the past two elections?  Please do us all a favor and resign right now so you can be replaced with people who have a brain.  This action is bad policy for the country and horrible politics for Republicans in the next election.

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  • eburke

    there is no way that Collins, Specter or Snowe voted in favor of 9,000 earmarks. I mean, they’re part of the ‘fiscally conservative, socially moderate’ wing of the GOP who are the saviors of our party because they will save us from those socially conservative neandrethals that are keeping us from being a majority party. I mean, ask David Brooks for heaven’s sake. He’s an expert at assessing politicians’ intents.

    I’m thinking that you must have misread the vote tallies and that it was really Coburn, Kyl, Inhofe and Demint who voted in favor of this abomination because, after all, they’re from the wing of the party that cares only about social issues and continually screw over the fiscally conservative wing of the party. Please check your facts again, please.

    Snark….off.

  • ColdWarrior

    Earmarks. John McCain the campaigner said he would make those who used them “famous.” Today he at least railed against the earmarks on the Senate floor (it might have been yesterday). But that’s not enough, based on what he said when in “campaign mode.” Describing wasteful earmarks is one thing, naming the earmarkers by name is another. I did not hear him name any earmarker by name. Maybe he did — I did not hear his full remarks. Can?t make them famous if they remain nameless.

    I expected his staff to have a list of the earmarkers on his Senate web site. Nope. The staffer I talked to didn’t seem to think it was all that important. Didn’t know whether a list was being prepared for the web site.

    I realize the earmarks only make up about 2 per cent of the overall $400 B + budget bill, but I believe earmarks resonate with taxpayers now. 9,000 earmarks, 40 per cent of which, I also read, were inserted by Republicans. Money just snatched out of thin air for pet projects for cronies. McCain at least did use the word “corruption” in his remarks.

    I think McCain could win reelection easily, both in any primary contest and in the general election, if he were to famously make the earmarkers, Republicans and Democrats alike, famous. I told his staffer that today, too. If he fails to name names (I know, I know, someone else might do it, but the point is McCain said HE would do it), I told them I would try to make him famous (infamous, really) for being too timid to carry out his campaign pledge to ?make them famous.? Already at least one conservative Republican here in AZ has announced he will be running for McCain’s seat. I’ve met him. Good guy. I’ll talk to him about this.

    • http://www.ssce.net/Web-Articles/Web-articles-indexed-authors.html#authors-l JLenardDetroit

      A Check for $1…. With the Note saying that if they don’t get the list of all 8,000+ Earmarkers listed on his campaign site… I will be sending a Check for $100 to his Democrat opponent (whoever the heck that is, I’ll need to find out soon since McCain won’t bother to uphold his promises)…. I said I would send him more for his campaign if he finally stepped up to keep the Make Them Famous promise…. which he won’t….

      • Mike gamecock DeVine

        but he didn’t. He voted for a terrible bank bailout that also violated his anti-pork religion.