Comments on: 1,866 earmarks in Energy and Water Bill

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:41:37 +0000

I had the list, but it just wouldn’t post. There was something in it wrecking havoc with WordPress. I am afraid we are stuck with the link I posted unless someone has the time to copy the list and reformat it.

By: Scope

Scope — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:38:30 +0000

how Obama came up with the amounts that he earmarked for each project, in each state. Wouldn’t the Reps have had to give him the amounts?

By: Scope

Scope — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:10 +0000

just to see if Obama has cut out the states that didn’t vote for him.

I also looked to see if my Rep. Cantor (7th VA) has any earmarks here, and, thankfully he does not. I wonder if Obama put his name behind the majority just to protect any Dems. that may be vulnerable in 2010.

By: Scope

Scope — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:32:10 +0000

just to see if Obama has cut out the states that didn’t vote for him.

By: Aaron Gardner

Aaron Gardner — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:15:26 +0000

The people of his district need to wise up. And the RonPaul brigade needs to get a clue.

By: Richard Mullins

Richard Mullins — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:06:25 +0000

he has introduced the most pork. He right up there with Sheila Jackson-Lee(TX-18). I didn’t see my congressman there at all(Ted Poe [TX-02]) but I could be wrong. Warner, is there a way to get a spreadsheet on this as opposed to having all down the line.

By: Scope

Scope — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 17:47:43 +0000

As I was going through the list quickly, I kept noticing Paul’s name after many of the earmarks. I totaled them, and they come to the above amount. Many believe Paul to be more than a kook, but, many listen to his statements concerning the dollar value, the need to cut the spending and blah blah blah. Yet he earmarks over $33 million. Beck needs stop thinking this guy has anything valid to say.

By: lholsenbeck

lholsenbeck — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:20:38 +0000

In addition to Obama getting his hand in your wallet, i’m currently alternating between Rush and Boortz.

Boortz is rattling off the cap and trade boondogales that YOU will be paying for.

Rush is laying out the increasing taxes coming to NYC and Wall Street.

I “hope” electing Obama is one heck of an education to the people to read the fine print before approving of something.

Obama’s fine print let anyone reading it know extremes like these were a possibility, now they’re reality. I “hope” the 6 weeks of feeling good will last the 6 years it takes to get America back on the tracks.

By: ddlbb

ddlbb — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:04:49 +0000

is this a joke? the majority of these earmarks are put into the energy and water bill by the president. perhaps his strategy is that these spending indulgences are not earmarks because they were not put in by members of congress.

By: Warner Todd Huston

Warner Todd Huston — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 14:49:39 +0000

There were two replies here earlier. I was having major trouble with the code on this post so I ended up deleting those two comments. So, it wasn’t YOU guys, it was me. Your replies were not removed because of something you did.

Thanks

WTH