“The internal firing squad among House Republicans has begun, with conservative Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) as the first out of the gate calling for the House leadership team to be replaced.”

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Roll Call
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“Much of the backroom maneuvering and media speculation in the coming weeks will focus on identifying new standard-bearers for the party. This is important, and after a second straight drubbing, the House Republican leadership should be replaced. But the far more critical task is determining what standard these new leaders will bear.” – Jeff Flake, Washington Post (Full Text)

Flake Rains on Pelosi’s Earmark Parade

• On the motion to cut federal spending: McCain, Aye. Obama, No. You?
• On the motion to eliminate earmarks: McCain, Aye. Obama, No. You?
• On the motion to preserve the Bush tax cuts: McCain, Aye. Obama, No. You?
• On the motion to increase federal spending: Obama, Aye. McCain, No. You?

Earmarks taken (in $$$) – Obama, $800,000,000. McCain, $0.

McCain’s Key Endorsements
- Jeff Flake
- Tom Coburn
- John Shadegg

How did Tom DeLay’s Medicare Part D pass? Earmarks. Give John McCain the veto pen and he’ll change the business of Washington.

VOTE MCCAIN

“Mr. Speaker, I would suggest that when you have a conference report and we finally get a look at it last night, less than 12 hours ago or so, and there are more than two dozen earmarks air-dropped into it, this is the first we’ve seen of them, we haven’t seen any of them before this time, that is not the model of transparency. That is not openness. We have no ability to challenge those earmarks. None. We can’t highlight them and say you vote up or down on this earmark.

The joint explanatory statement says that there are 24 Defense earmarks that were not passed by either Chamber, costing $59 million. Let me give you just one example of what’s in there. There is one of these earmarks, $3 million earmark in the Defense bill, remember, this is the Defense bill we’re talking about, a $3 million earmark for a program, according to The Hill newspaper, intended to attract disadvantaged and minority children to the game of golf. This is the game of golf in a Defense bill. Is it any wonder, should anybody be surprised that this was an earmark that was air-dropped into the conference report when we don’t have the ability in this Chamber to challenge it? This is the only opportunity we have, a procedural vote, as to whether to move forward on the rule. Now, that is not openness, that is not transparency.” – Jeff Flake, Arizona.

Stop this nonsense. Vote John McCain.

With the election fast approaching, John McCain has weathered a storm of Obama attack ads to pull even with Yahweh, according to the AP.

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* Earmarks secured (in $$$)         - OBAMA: $800,000,000   MCCAIN: $0

* Small Businesses Owned – PALIN 1, OBAMA: 0
* Small Towns Governed – PALIN 1, OBAMA 0
* Small States Governed – PALIN 1, OBAMA 0
* Military Service (in yrs) – MCCAIN: 13 OBAMA 0
* Wars Fought – MCCAIN: many, OBAMA: none
* Governorship Experience (in yrs) – PALIN 2, OBAMA 0
* Executive Experience (in yrs) – PALIN 8, OBAMA 0
* Abortions Opposed (each year) – MCCAIN: 1,300,000 OBAMA: 0
* Children Adopted – MCCAIN 1, OBAMA 0