A Sarcastic John McCain Tweets Top 10 Porkiest Projects

“#10. $1.7M “for a honey bee factory” in Weslaco, TX”
Not sure if McCain is aware of this but there’s been a massive die off of honey bees and they are vital to our food production thru pollination.

The “honey bee factory” in Weslaco is actually a major research foundation for bees. Anyone who’s not been living in a cave is aware that bees face extinction globally, and anyone with a little bit of scientific literacy, can see the importance of bee pollination in plant and crop growth. The 2 million astronomy promotion probably pertains to an observatory. Hawaii’s isolated location would make it a good site for astronomical research. Belittling science along with advancing creationism are obviously two distinct traits of Republicans.
It’s fine that McCain would like to repair his reputation as being technologically illiterate, but then, neither he nor Jake should be disparaging projects without having any background information on them. This also reads like a recycling of a Jonathan Karl report last week. Good Night.

I agree with Ryan C on the honey bees, but most of McCains other items are valid, and maybe even the honey bees, depending on if this is the appropriate way to solve that problem funding a single factory in a specific state.
I would really like the Congress to show some leadership and deal with the serious issues of job creation. They need to swear off these types of parochial projects, until the economy seriously approves and we start reducing the deficit. I know this may be a while, but the approval rating of Congress is low for a reason.

“This also reads like a recycling of a Jonathan Karl report last week.”
It is.

“Mr. McCain is aware of it..
and that’s why he didn’t object to Bee reseach.”
So he puts in in a sarcastic tweet?
“But one factory in one town is PORK”
You prefer there be handful of bee research centers scattered across the US?
As kat mentioned that city is the location of a major bee research firm.

McCain’s better than Hannity at this juncture. Hannity lied about the mice and railway and the republicans fell for it hook, line and sinker. I think that the police guarding rich people’s homes and neighborhoods is a porky project. Let’s take that out, k?

Gee, I’m wondering if those helicopters that
he was criticizing as excessive spending a few days ago were manufacture in HIS State, would be up there protesting it? Hmmm. If you say “probably”, maybe
that is why there are no major manufacturers in
the State of Arizona.

My fellow democrats, like Obama answered his call to duty, this is your call. Please donate your intelligence and intellect to help society’s charitable cause. The comments on this right-wing losers blog is all the proof you should need to determine how dire the situation is.
We have pacified the regulars by giving them an ‘A’ in sarcasm (Rush 101). However, for ethical reasons, we cannot simply ‘pass’ them into society as they have failed the most critical class (Human 300).
We really need to help them succeed. Much patience is required, but please do your civic duty. Please help pull your misguided republican brethren up out of the gutter.
Thank you in advance. :-)

Stuff like what was mentioned above makes me want a third party so badly. Remember that the Republicans spent lots of money on stupid pork projects too. If their party wasn’t led by loons like Huckabee, Jindal, and Palin, maybe the more electable Republicans could use earmarks as a campaign issue to try and revive their party. Just don’t criticize stuff that is necessary-like volcano monitoring. That would be my advice.

#.5. $169,300 annually for John McCain to engage in little more than non-productive snark?

“bee research” is a pork project of Cornyn and Hutchison (republicans). still pork does put people to work. i would like to research bees. we do really need them.

If it looks like a rose and it smells like a rose then a prudent person would call it a rose, but if you have to justify why you voted for Obama then they are well thought out projects!!
ROFLMAO
Keep up the good work Mr McCain

have you read what happens to us when there are no bees? be careful of what you call “pork” because it may affect your life.

While everyone focuses on the honey bee project, the big picture is, as usual, getting lost.
How, exactly, do any of these project stimulate the economy? The money will be handed over to a state or local government or a business or some other organization and those entities will decide what to do with the money.
As we have seen with the TARP funds, the government handouts are not being used to benefit more than a few.
Why should we expect the handouts in the so-called stimulus bill to be handled any better?
Government handouts are engraved invitations to corruption and those invitations are invariably accepted.

The Senator certainly has a bright future ahead of him in vaudeville.

However AZ is amongst the top for foreclosures….perhaps we should cut off the funds for his state and see how happy he is
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Arizona is one of the top 5 states in NUMBERS of forclosures. However the top 5 states in terms of DOLLARS are Californis, Florida, New York, New Jersey and Illinois.

Seems to me that if there is any real danger of bees dying off, and if their dying off would be really catastrophic, the likes of Donald Trump, Boone Pickens et al. would be rushing in to capitalize on saving them. The fact that the federal government is rushing in to save them–if that is what it thinks it is doing (and who knows?)–is not reassuring.

If McCain is against something then it must have some worth and should be done.

“Then add to it the wetlands money for Pelosi mouse,”
A BS talking point made up out of thin air.
” from Nevada to LA for Reid, plus numerous other pork laden items”
Also a made up talking point.
“But I have to take issue with this?
the not ready technology for maglev railroad”
I realize right wingers are only concerned with technological innovations like the step gate on a pickup but high speed maglev trains have been in use for 2 decades.

$10.5 million of pork in a $750 million appropriations bill… that’s 1.4% pork, not bad, not bad at all.

Sen. McCranky “tweets” with sarcasm? How else. He does everything with sarcasm.

I heard it through the grapevine that was saved by the bees that all the ‘pork’ added to the bill(s) were the contribution of the repubs. Is that true? If so, the republicans should be ashamed of themselves — again.

This was actually a routine appropriations bill from last fall, not something Obama came up with. If Grampa Simpson was so concerned about the “pork” why didn’t he do his job and participate in the appropriations process? Oh yeah, he was too busy getting his butt kicked by Obama.
More than 40% of these “earmarks” are from Republican lawmakers. Now the right wing is turning on each other to demonstrate who’s the most fiscally responsible. They must have been sleeping while W spent money like a drunken sailor and turned a budget surplus into a record defecit.

Well that was a grammatical travesty. Sorry about that.

McCain would like us to believe the reason he never used computers, and didn’t know how to use them during the campaign, was due to war injuries. Now we see him twittering? OH PLEASE….this guy is trying to be cool now by learning a new trick. Are we supposed to be impressed?

Bush looks like a tightwad compared to Obama’s massive spending; increasing the deficit by so much in one short month. Other countries are becoming aware of this reckless behavior and asking Hillary to guarantee their investments before they give anymore money.

LifesAJourney- maybe you should read about McCain before mouthing off about him. The twittering uses a phone keypad, Quite different from typing with any speed from a keyboard. Plus having your hands in a position over a keypad for any period of time could be difficult considering the torture he had gone through. The man can’t lift his arms over his head. You guys are aweful. My suggestion is to have someone tie you up with your hands behind your back and string it up so your arms are are almost pulled out their sockets. Then stay that way for 3 days. See how well you work a keyboard.

Hmmm…this is the guy who wanted to fight 4 wars. Iraq, iran, russia and afghanistan. I bet that would have cost alot more than investing in America and would have wreaked alot more havoc.

Mr. Obama tells us to sacrifice, but he goes out and spend trillions.

sevresblue said “Yeah – definitely let’s not fund science of any kind, and darn those kids for not wanting to slog through the mud and/or dust to get into their school!” These should be funded privately, not publicly.

Now I’m beginning to worry $1.7 million for bees isn’t nearly enough.

You can think research on honeybees is very important and still agree with Senator McCain that this earmark is a bad idea. I do– let me explain why:
The main objection to earmarks is that they bypass the normal vetting process of the Congress. The merits of particular program are not debated. If the Texas A&M bee research program is a worthy project, and I have no way to know if it is or isn’t but am willing to concede it may well be extremely useful, then why not fund it through regular channels, rather than slip it into a bill as an earmark? maybe the country needs a honey bee factory, but earmarking a honey bee factory means either a) that the money is being channeled to a specific proposed factory, not to the group that presents the best bid for building a honey bee factory or b} that the government funding of the honey bee factory is written in such a way that only one honey bee factory in the country qualifies for that funding (kinda like the demonstration power plant in Illinois that will benefit from the stimulus funding).
In other words, this is not a case where the Department of Agriculture proposed increased funding for honey bee research and awarded 1.7 million to Texas A&M (or whoever it is) to build a honey bee factory in Weslaco. This is a case where a Congressperson– probably one from Texas, no duh– put wording into an appropriations bill so that this particularly honey bee factory gets funded. Do we know how much the government is already spending on honey bee research this year? Do we know if the honey bee factory in Weslaco is redundant or essential, wildly overprices or quite reasonable? Using an earmark for funding says none of that matters, just delivering goodies for the constituents matters.
Yes, honey bees are vital to our food production. So I figure the government is already funding plenty of honey bee research. In fact, the Texas A&M Agriresearch center in Weslaco is already doing research on honey bees, as well as lots of other agriculture-related stuff. So the money will fund an expansion of their work, but I am not sure (and research on the web does not turn up– if someone else finds out, please share) what a bee “factory” would be. Speaking as an academic, I would just say that if Texas A&M wants to expand their honeybee research, they can write a grant and get funding just like everybody else. getting a legislator to drop in an earmark is not playing on a level field. I’m tired of it, and I’m surprised that you guys are more interested in taking potshots at Senator McCain than in addressing the issue of controlling spending. We need transparency and accountability, and earmarks afford us neither.

I believe that the reaction to Senator McCain and other Repubs that talk about earmarks is do in large part to how much they overreact to earmarks. To have heard McCain talk during the election at times earmarks were the single worst thing facing this country, when in fact they are maybe 3-4% of the total budget during a time of two wars and an economic crisis. The mountain out of molehills saying applies. Are earmarks a problem…yes definitely and I agree with the post from Moderate on them. But at the same time there should be some perspective.

Too little too late John!
I just watched the movie “Doctor Zhivago” followed by a movie on the Declaration of Independence.
Interesting that these two movies should play back to back as Obama is bringing America to her knees by manipulating and capturing the imagination of so many sheep with his obfuscating rhetoric designed to fog facts and lasso converts! :(
It is criminal to stifle creativity, vision, ingenuity, the ability to think, write and speak freely with an agenda that first angers and then corrals people into cages of adoring apathy.

It all sounds good to me when I compare it against a trillion dollar war that is never going to end, but leave many dead and seriously injured. But hey, let’s not be trivial. There should be a study on why Republicans stink–politically speaking that is.

Government, Republican or Democrat/Progressive, can’t legislate healing for the human heart. Science or technology…cant’t seal the deal either.
Think about it – Pray about it!

couple of thoughts here: first, mccain learning to twitter is not going to help with the youth vote… second, 10.5 million, in a package of 787 BILLION, is .000013% of the total bill. not saying that we ought waste money, but i can see how each of the projects listed would either put people to work, help others to find work, and allow others to be able to keep their jobs. if mccain is going to complain about pork in the bill, he ought to at least pick projects that use a minimum of one-tenth of the bill, rather than thirteen-millionths of it…

Hey Johnny! Sit down and shut up! You were beat by a land slide! Who cares what you think? You admitted to not having a clue on how to fix the economy. Now you do? LOL Get real!

I like the bee funding.

All of the items NOT directly related to creating jobs in a timely, targeted manner should NOT have been in the bill. Therefore, it is PORK.
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When you don’t know what you are talking about, it’s usually better to say nothing.
this is not the Stimulus bill, this is the Omnibus Spending bill.

wow, those pigs in Ohio are lucky…
money for Pig odor..what are they going to spend it on?
glide air freshner for each pig pen?
maybe the suggestion would be, umm, it is a pig farm, move away!

While most of the spending should be open to fair criticism I must agree with the others who have defended the bee project. This has the most potential for dire consequences to our agribusiness if ignored and vividly demonstrates McCain’s typical right-wing ignorance of such matters.

Willem van Oranje -When you don’t know what you are talking about, it’s usually better to say nothing.” Excuse me. I got confused because this administration has been spending money like we actually have it. It doesn’t change the fact that it is mostly unnecessary spending and is pork. The government is involved in too many things that they have no business being involved in.

i dont see a problem with the Bee funding.. honey is good. we depend on bees to make honey. things we can live and depend on are good.
but Pig odor?
conservative fiscal rocks! they are not backward, racists, closedminded people that the left like for many people to believe.

ellsbells930: ” And an opinion is not fact.”
“It doesn’t change the fact that it is mostly unnecessary spending and is pork. ”
Seeing as how pork is NOT defined, it is entirely a matter of opinion. I am laughing out loud at how you just berated someone for using a common phrase that taken literally couched his opinion as fact, and then turn right around and do it yourself. Perfect.

think about it… the government has filled out a loan to buy a house from the american people… the government does not have money and depend on the american people’s tax to make the monthly mortage..
so now what happens when the american people 1) don’t have jobs to pay the goverment taxes 2) start a protest to not pay the gov’t anymore (sort of like the current mortage criss). how does the gov’t come up with the money to make the monthly payment??
don’t borrow more than what you can afford.

Ordermonger – as soon as public funding dried up, private funding would occur naturally for worthwhile projects. Ever hear of organizations like the American Cancer Society? How about pharmaceutical companies? And I’m not sure why the government would continue to fund medical research, since it will all be deemed to expensive per the stimulus bill. That seems to me to be a waste of money to fund medical research, when it will never be used.

jhw539 said “It is a source of major lawsuits across the agricultural states and an indisputable quality of life issues. ”
Hey – if the pig farm was there before you moved in, then perhaps you shouldn’t have bought next to a pig farm. (Not saying that you, jhw539, lives next to a pig farm)

jhw539 – Is this spending absolutely necessary? No. Therefore, it is pork. The only funding that the FEDERAL government is required to do is for defending this country – period. There isn’t anything else that couldn’t be accomplished another way. The honey bees need protected, then let the honey bee lovers raise the money for it. People don’t like the smell of a pig farm, then don’t live next to one.

It doesn’t change the fact that it is mostly unnecessary spending and is pork.
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Name one.
The things I have seen sofar aren’t porkbarrel spending in the traditional sense. The things that have been called “pork” here or elsewhere are all for causes with a clearly defined purpose in reseach, science, prevention, and can easily be defended for why it would be necessary to fund them.
They’re not vanity projects like the “Bridge to Nowhere” in Alaska, which would greatly benefit Stevens’s donors wallets, but would be of real use only for 50 Alaskans.
Remember that “earmarks” don’t have any impact on the size of the budget. Earmarks is money that is ALREADY budgetted for a particular Department. The only thing Congress does is attach a small “earmark” to that Budget which says: “from this budget, you will spent this amount on that specific projects”
Without earmarks, the entire budget would be spent by bureaucrats. With earmarks, a small amount of it will be directed by elected officials, who can be held accountable by voters.
I don’t have a big issue with earmarks when they are directed to worthy projects which benefits all of us: directly or indirectly. I only have issues with earmarks that are vanity projects, or earmarks that benefit a poltician’s donors. In both cases: name them and shame them.
It’s not earmarks that are the problem, it’s people who use them for their own benefit.
And earmarks are literally peanuts in the larger budget. Especially in the last Omnibus Spending Bill, and in this one.

Willem van Oranje – well, there’s a list of ten above. None of that should be paid for with our federal tax dollars.

ellsbells930:” if the pig farms are new, then the people living in the area should have done something about it before hand. ”
What, so the orchard owner who sees more profit in pigs loses the right to use his land as he sees fit?
“Is this spending absolutely necessary? No. Therefore, it is pork. The only funding that the FEDERAL government is required to do is for defending this country – period.”
So that is your personal definition.
The invention and construction of the internet, the greatest job engine in a generation, is by your definition = pork.
Universal education (widely credited for the US’s post war economic boom) by your definition = pork.
Interstate highway system = pork.
Management of the salmon fisheries = pork.
Enforcement of food standards to, for example, keep salmonella out of peanut butter = pork.
The patent system = pork.
I understand you position, but I think it is stupid and shortsighted. Probably why those who share it have been pummeled at the polls lately (can’t wait until the last of the Bush senators have to stand for election in 2010!).

It’s doubtful that Mr. McCain is awar that there is a looning disaster for our country, with the unexplained shortage, and death toll in the honeybee population in our country. Something had better do some reasearch and developement on them before we are unable to pollenate our food items, and eventually have a disaster on our hands in producing our food needs. I would say that McCain is better at drinking beerk, or counting his houses, than he is at knowing anything about sush that horse sense is a part of. He is really not very good at counting his own houses, come to think of it. There may be some port in this bill, but the Republicans have had a hog farm in the past totals of the previous bills that flew out the window of our national bankroll. How about the gift contract in Iraq ? Would that be pork loin, or pigs feet.??

Skip-I would like to point out that these pig ‘farms’ are not like farms that most people are familiar with. It would be better to call them pig factories. They are huge and the giant waste collection pools associated with them are so toxic that when they leak it kills everything on the ground and in the water.
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you know what is really tasty, roasted pig. my favorite is PA amish style pulled pork.
you know whaqt else is toxic? human waste from people living in the city.
you know the recent Austrilia fire that killed 200 people. you know those people were pi**ed because the envirnmentalist/Greenies said that the people could not cut down the bushes around their home. need to preserve the envirnment, something like that, well 200 people died.
point is, we will always have pig farm, smell and waste comes with it. we should not have to spend money to study the smell.

jhw539, thanks for calling me ignorant (because I made a poor estimate of the cost of sidewalk construction) and revealing a true lack of class.
You cite statistics for Durham, NC for the price of sidewalks (900K per mile) and suggest that it would be more (double, you said) in a “built-up city.” I don’t think we need to worry about that in Franklin, Texas, the site of the proposed sidewalks McCain complained of. Franklin is a small town on Highway 79, 35 miles from College Station, that had a population of 1470 in the 2000 (pre-Rahm) census. It is the county seat of a county of 16,000. It has an independent school system comprised of three schools– a high school, middle school, and an elementary school. The high school serves around 300-350 students. They passed a bond issue in 2007 to spend 17 million on school improvements over a 3 year period, which included not only renovations to the buildings but such things as buses and furniture.
My point? I do not think the amount of sidewalk to be constructed is very large. I do not think sidewalk construction would cost as much there as it apparently does in Durham. And I do not see why the town cannot pay for the sidewalks out of their own funds.
If that is ignorance on my part, then I’ll take comfort in the old adage, “ignorance is bliss.” *G*

JHW-
ellsbells930:”None of that should be paid for with our federal tax dollars. ”
If you were in charge, the internet would never have been invented.
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you seriously need to come up with another argument about the internet thing. conservatives, wait for it, uses iinternet. seriously, grow up. it is just an old left over belief of the lefties that the righties don’t use internet..
internet has nothing to do with politics.

Wow 10 million! A whole 10 million, top 10 Wow!
LOL how much is the GOP spending to keep their staff even though their numbers are way down. How much pork is there in the budget from the GOP? Why is that the Obama Admin must write the budget for 2009, when we are almost half way through that year?
As far as the Honey bee, we are aware that the bees are dying out from some sort of disease that is not understood, and threaten agriculture in America.
Reporters on the other hand is too ignorant to understand. Just trying to make a buck aren’t we?

moderate:”jhw539, thanks for calling me ignorant (because I made a poor estimate of the cost of sidewalk construction) and revealing a true lack of class. ”
I did not grow up in the “no such thing as a stupid question, precious snowflake” self-esteem era, so don’t expect an apology. You were basing your opinion off of assumptions that were off by greater than a factor of twenty. And when that is pointed out, it doesn’t change your conclusion one whit. You just change your reasoning. Clearly, your conclusions are not a product of reasoning but the opposite way around, so what is the point of arguing?

Ryan, I am not sure if you realize a honey bee factory is not the actual honey bees…its basically a processing plant for honey.

All of these are local issues being paid for by national funds. If they were really good projects the local governments would have made them a priority, but they didn’t. So we know right off that there is something wrong with these projects. (Too expensive, low payback, bad idea, or something)
Making specific decisions in far of Washington D.C. doesn’t make a lot of sense. I wish Congress would just turn the budget money over to the local governments (city/county preferably) and let the people who actually know what’s going on make the decisions.

Will Obama please ‘splain to me if these are simply wasteful government spending projects allocated by legislators for pet projects, or if they are “earmarks” ’cause I’m sorta having a hard time telling the difference.

And all the pork he listed are from red states put in by mostly republican senators…

And all the pork he listed are from red states put in by mostly republican senators…

hypocrisy at its best..

“I would like to point out that these pig ‘farms’ are not like farms that most people are familiar with. ”
Well, I’m familiar with them. They stink. A lot. Where’s my 1.7 million?

“Big Sky Farms wanted to built a Hog Factory in Cassia County with 595,000 hogs. That would have potentially produced manure equivalent to the population of 11,900,000 people. ”
You do realize that this is a renewable energy source, don’t you?

“All of these are local issues being paid for by national funds. If they were really good projects the local governments would have made them a priority, but they didn’t.”
Only the sidewalk and the parking garage can be considered of local significance only, the other 8 have significance for the entire state, or several states, or the entire country.
With regard to the parking garage, are we sure it is only of “local” significance, or would it benefit a community which also has a lot of federal building with lots of federal workers in it? Can somebody check?
Sidewalk? Maybe the local community has gone bankrupt because of the crisis? And the absence of the sidewalk has become a real health hazard for the students? I’d like to know more before decrying something as “pork”.

Bridget:”"Tell us how to make them not stink and still produce the same levels of pork yield per pound of feed for less than a 5% increase in capital costs and the money’s yours.”
Well, yours apparently don’t stink, so why don’t you collect the 1.7 mil?”
? What? I don’t have a hog farm. And I don’t see how that addresses the issue that the money was earmarked to help find a solution not just state the obvious as you did.

“the issue that the money was earmarked”
Shhhhhh, Obama promised there wouldn’t be any of those, remember?

“the issue that the money was earmarked”
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There is not a single statement in this post that tells us any of this is an earmark.

And again, the mentality of the GOP can be reduced to “I don’t care what happens to everyone else as long as I get mine!”

I mean, if it walks like and earmark and quacks like an earmark…..

If it walks like an earmark and quacks like an earmark
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And when it doesn’t walk like an earmark and quacks like an earmark? What then?
You just keep repeating what Rush and Fox and the GOP tells you to repeat?
All of you have not made one attempt to prove that these are earmarks or attempted to make clear that it is wasteful spending. You just keep blathering the same silly stuff over and over again.

I thought JOHN MCCAIN couldn’t use a computer!

Ya know, I’m not going to feel sorry for the House or the Senate. They have nobody to blame for these “earmarks” in this Stimulus bill. They passed it without even reading it. As important as this was, you’d think they could have collectively gone to the president and asked for a couple of days so they could read it. None of them deserve to be in office.

tad
yea this is worse than the Repubs adding things to bills in the deasd of night! I have said from the primaries on that the Obama is President Bush in a mirror!

I am for limited time in office to 2 years, for all offices to include President. This way we wean out all the morons we elect before they cause too much damage.
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That would be the quickest way to have unelected people write every bill in Congress: stafmembers, bureaucrats, and lobbyists.

I do not agree with choices 1 through 9, but if we go on without the honeybees then there will be no food. The honeybees do the pollinating of the plants that produce our food. We need the honeybees.

40 percent of the ear marks built in to the package just past were Republican ear marks and special interest. They tear on the Dem ear marks but do not mention their own.

Someone should tell McCain that he lost the election in 2008!! It makes everyone happy when they see him bungling around because they say to themselves ‘ this was the alternative ‘ not that the winner isn’t living up to every one of his shortcomings. There is no fool like an old fool.

One congressman’s pork is another congressman’s pet project. If McCain was serious he would ensure his Republican colleagues pulled all of their pet projects out of the bill and then demand Democrats do the same. Instead McCain does what he always does and grandstands in front of cameras. He really is an ineffective Senator since he yields no power in either party. He would have been an equally ineffective president.

$2 million ‘for the promotion of astronomy’ in Hawaii – because nothing says new jobs for average Americans like investing in astronomy”
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Man has studied the stars from the beginning of time. Not only is there a huge industry built around armature astronomy, there ios also a large industry built out of the out flow from Astronomy. The prime example is the space program and what it has delivered, everything from new materials, microchips, communications, to medical Industries that employ millions of people.
These things and complaints are fine, but to take McCains view without getting any information is absurd. I trust mcCains word like anyother Politician. Just like no 10 I doubt it has anything to do with a Honeybee Factory, whatever that is, but everything to do with the USDA Honeybee research facilities at Weslaco, TX.

What’s wrong with pork? If you are talking about the kind of meat, it is in fact white meat.
As to congressional projects, if your congressman or senator do not bring these projects to your district, I’d advise you to vote ‘em out. If they do bring money back from Washington, you are truly blessed by having an effective law maker(s). It’s your money, if you and your comgressman and senators don’t like it and don’t want to spend it, someone else will be happily to help, like the Smartest Clueless PB0, earmarking 1 cool mil as soon as he became the freshman senator from Illinois to reward his wife’s employer for raising her salary by 150% after he was elected.
We have now one useless Senator who herself did not even know how in the world he bumped into the position as a senator, and a congressman got into congress the same ways PB0 got nominated. We did get rid of the other repblican useless Senator, but still fighting with the Commedian turned talk show host for the last spot. They bring back nothing and we get no parks, no dog-cloning las, no pig farms built.

What is one man’s pork…is another man’s necessitie. It seems that this pork is from GOP strongholds, which he failed to name the Senator or Rep. from those areas. He said he would call them out and name Names. Shut Up, McBush already. You’re part of the problem, 25 years and what have you done, but ran unsuccessful for President. You are angry, and the anger is not about “pork” sir.

CAW,you suggested that, “40 percent of the ear marks built in to the package just past were Republican ear marks and special interest. They tear on the Dem ear marks but do not mention their own.” I follow Senator McCain in railing against all earmarks, regardless of the party of the person making the request. McCain did NOT single out democrat’s earmarks– he has always, as here, spoken out against all earmarks. When I complained about the earmarks on the list, I did not know what party the requests came from. I know the honey bee center is a democratic earmark but I frankly do not know or care who asked for the sidewalk or other earmarks. Could be republicans, for all I know. That does not make the earmark any more acceptable.

Willem van Oranje I don’t think a factory owner is particular pleased when he finds his factory flooded because b-e-a-vers built a dam and caused a nice pool. Nor do I think homeowners will be particularly pleased with that.” Then perhaps they shouldn’t build a factory or homes where ‘b-e-a-vers’ build dams. Wow-such a simple solution!

This is just dismaying.
Spending was too high under Bush. When he had a Republican Congress, spending was too high and they got voted out office.
Then came a Democratic Congress, and spending was too high. So people voted for a guy who promised to cut the budget.
And now spending is at record levels- trillions of dollars in just a few weeks- and I see people here justifying everything.
I’m beginning to suspect people didn’t really want a change in spending levels in Washington.

Let Texas A &M and/or the USDA go through normal channels to get it . . . .
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Referring to the Kika de La Graza Subtropical Agricultural Center as a “honey bee factory” was not only a pejorative, but deliberately misleading. It has been around since 1931, and its research areas” are an integral part of the National Research Programs at over 100 locations for the USDA, Agricultural Esearch Service in all 50 states, and several foreign countries.” Texas A&M is a component of the center along with the USDA. The center also works in conjunction with the EPA on food safety compliance, and it’s my understanding it’s been researching diseases of the honeybee colonies for years.

Kat the Real One, thanks for the info further identifying the honeybee lab in question. That simply proves my point. The earmark provides money for salaries and expenses at the lab. Folks around here are acting as if there would not be honeybee research if not for this earmark. That’s simply not true. As you say, the lab has been in existence and doing research for a long while. All its funding in the past has not come from earmarks, but through regular channels. If more is necessary, they can obtain it through regular means. Using an earmark is not appropriate.
The president has made clear his distaste for earmarks (but will he live up to his pledge to veto bills that contain them? I predict he’ll sign this bill, saying the earmarks were placed there prior to his inauguration and he’ll try to keep them out of future bills instead). yet so many of his fans here jump to defend them. Odd. Methinks that if it were Mr. Obama who put out this top ten list (he has, after all, vowed to shame anyone who wastes stimulus funds, so shaming those who waste or misappropriate other government money would not be a stretch), it would have gotten a much different reception.

Hahahahaha !!!
McCain is a Damn JOKE
Those Top 10 Pork Chops are what .011% of Obama’s Stimulus and that will be Weeded out, thanks Johnny Boy !!
Everything Obama does is a Hidden Agenda….
Everything Bush Jr. did was Transparent and on the Up and Up…
The Straight and Narrow….
Just like Bush’s “This Economy is about to Crater… The Economy is about to tank Out”
Ha !!
Bailed out the Damn Banks and Wall Street and Let the Bankers and Wall Street Executives to Run Wild with the Billions given.
Republican Talking Points: Big Government, get out of the Way and Let the Market Grow….
Go Bankrupt and get Bailed out by the [[Tax Payers]] you Notice that the Republican Party, Never Complain about this Dump on the Tax Payers Next Generation, but You Hear the Republican Pundits Trash Obama, for Dumping this DEBT on the Nation’s Next Generation, because Bush is a Republican and [[Corporate Welfare]] is Acceptable and Dumping such DEBT on the Next Generation is [[Acceptable]] and this “Free Enterprise” Bull-Spit isJustified.
Republicans Creed: Corporate Welfare is Jusifiable and Generational DEBT based on Wall Street & U.S. Bank Bail Outs at the Tax Payers Expense…is ACCEPTABLE
Then these Same So Called Republicans Scream and Moan Over [[Bank Nationalization]]
THE HYPOCRITES !!
Hell, the American Auto Industry should be [[Nationalized]] as well.

O…Two words…Anger Manaagement.

The Republican Party, Socialism Scare Tactic 101, when all else has Failed..
George W.Bush and his then Majority Republican Senate & Congress Passed the Dreaded
[[Patriot Act]]
Which has taken Away…
All American Citizens Rights to Privacy, under Terrorism !!
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George Bush’s …
[2001 One Trillion Dollar Stimulus] that was Passed by his then Majority Republican Senate & Congress.
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George W. Bush, in his 8 Years as President of the USA..
[[Never Vetoed Any Spending Bills that came Across his Desk]]
I SAID NEVER !!
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Oh No, You Won’t call Good Ole Boy George a [[Communist-Marxist]] Huh
George W. Bush put this Country in DEBT to [[Communist-Socialist China]] to the Tune of [[20 Billion per Month]] to Finance our 2 Middle East Wars, with [[Interest]]
Allowed American Corporations to..
[[Dump American Workers]] for …
Cheap [[Communist-Socialist China & Viet Nam]]
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George W. Bush, then Rewarded Corporate America for their Treasonist Behavior, with Tax Breaks and Various other Incentives to Dump America’s Factories and it’s American Factory Workers.
George W. Bush Buys Hugo Chavez’s Oil and You call President Barack H. Obama a Communist-Marxist…
I guess if President Obama was the Corporate Color and hailed from the Southern Bred State of Texas, he would be a [[Great Patriot]] Huh…
Truth: Some of You, should just say You Hate President Obama, because of his Race…
Jeeesh !!

So, with some of these arguments I’m reading here I take it that the Libs love the current government spending, but hate the Republicans’ government spending (which was far less at any rate). Yep, really makes sense. I guess also that the 60% Dem earmarks are all good and the 40% Republican earmarks are all bad?
Kind of like now how the war in Afghanistan is all righteous because The One wants to pour more troops in there? Guess it’s like how JFK got us into Vietnam, Johnson increased the number of troops, but Nixon who eventually pulled them out was a ‘pig’ (according to John Lennon at least) and endured the greatest anti-war demonstrations during his presidency?
Personally, I believe each Congressman should get X dollars for earmarks every fiscal year, and when it’s gone, no more. Anything more than that must go through channels and be voted upon by Congress and hopefully be judged to be in the interest of the American people.
The main reason these people exist is to manage America’s Federal monies.
For the record, I dare so most of us Republicans/Conservatives were not and are not happy with the way our Republican congressmen have been wasting our money.
I can’t see how the Democratic congressmen care about what you Lefties think about this any more than most of the Republican congressman apparently care what we think about it.

The Mack is Baaaa ummm no.

he media is a JOKE, I mean isnt it disgusting, how quickly Obamas racist church, terrorist friends, 830K to ACORN, sealed birth certificate, TAX FRAUD for Treasury Secretary, and his broken pledges of transparency, and open government all seem to go unchallenged after one stinking news cycle.
This resident of our country is pushing nothing but snake oil, while president Pelosi (clueless as they come), and vice president Reid (complete utter moron) are raping, and robbing america blind.
They are screwing up this country to the point of no return, and they are doing it on purpose. Can you say “one world socialist goverment?
Posted by: Badger | Mar 1, 2009 10:19:14 AM
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Gotta point the finger somewhere
How about point the finger at a party that is severely inept and drastically out of touch with America. I don’t need the media and obviously neither does the majority of Americans to see how dismal the GOP is and how we needed a CLEAN break from the decades of a do-nothing government.
Barack Obama has came in with unprecedented BOLD determination TO CHANGE AMERICA.
That regurgitated drivel that you mentioned was well documented by all news outlets even your coveted Fixed News. America made a decision that drivel was not going to take our eyes off the true need for this country and we DID SO. It’s a shame that you are not one of those people.
Screwing up the country you say????? You must have just awaken from a eight year sleep have you?
Does the name George W. Bush ring a bell? One who is being argued to be the worst president in American history.
So Badger, it is you desire, please continue to fester in yesterday’s news or you can get a clue and Join America

News Flash !!
The American Dollar has No Value…Period
The Dollar is Not Backed by Gold…
Thank The FED and President Woodrow Wilson’s….
Federal Reserve Act of [[1913]] for that Bad Read.
The FED’s Money is Created out of the AIR and therefore, It DeValues the The Dollar…
The More Dollars the FED Prints, the More they Devalue the Currency.
If the USA Dollar was Still Backed by [[Gold]] This Country and it’s Currency would be in far Greater Shape…
Because [[Gold]] has Risen Greatly.
No Sir….
This Country and its [[Hollow Currency]] has been in Recession, long Before President Obama, it just begining to come to LIGHT…
There were More Republican Presidents in the Last 20 Or More Years
Republican: 2 Terms Nixon, 1 Terms Ford, 2 Terms Reagan, 1 Term Bush Sr, 2 Terms Bush Jr.
President: 1 Term Carter, 2 Term Clinton & Obama
None of these Presidents did Anything regarding Getting Our Currency Back to the [[Gold Standard]]
None of them, but Look who was in Power the Longest….Republicans
Now their Followers are trying to Spread, Fear, Hate, Dread & Hopelessness…
Because it is the ONLY CARD they have left to PLAY
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Ron Paul is the only Politician, to Address this matter of [[Gold]] being the Standard of the US Dollar, once More.

kat,tro:when you consider that there were hundreds of earmaks on the Omnibus bill
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Just highlighting this important point

Such wasteful spending , How can the government get away with this? Don’t forget to join the santelli tea party.

To O. here we go again with you bringing race into the equation.
Just say it as you see it, you hate rep earmarks but with dem earmarks in the billions your ok with. Hope your job is secure.

Mr. Obama won’t veto it because he loves the idea of more taxpayer money being spent on ridiculous nonsense. He thinks it will stimulate the economy. His failure to take action at a time when the country is bankrupt shows just how little Washington politicians think of taxpayer money. To them it is something to be played with, just like monopoly money. They absolutely no concern for the taxpayer and the money we give Washington to run this country. Both parties for decades have spent our money on garbage that really did not need to be spend by Washington. If the local people really needed it, they would find some way to pay for these pork projects. Why should someone in Iowa pay for some fruit fly research in New Jersey? Washington is out of touch with the citizens. But we deserve what we get.We keep re electing the same people expecting them to change their ways. That is like expecting a fireman trying to put out a fire with a squirt gun and failing every time. Yet, when he goes to his next fire, he does it again. Why are we so stupid to expect anything better than what we keep sending to the corrupt halls of Washington. God help us.

Fruit flies are one of the most common species used for genetic research, including research to cure autism. Saying that money is being “wasted” on “fruit fly research” is like saying money that we spent to build Humvee armor was wasted on “steel refinement”.

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