An Attempt to Distract from GOP Hypocrisy
I don't know about the rest of you, but I am grateful to live in a technological age where we have video proof when people are *lying* through their teeth and misrepresenting other's words.
Case in point. The conservative media's new bone that Obama is "breaking a campaign promise to ban all earmarks".
If fact, Obama *never* promised to ban earmarks.
Take a look for yourself:
McCain repeated the no-earmark mantra for months during the campaign.
Honestly, I am not a math whiz, but eliminating one half of one percent of the Federal Budget does very little to balance that sheet in any way.
If the GOP is so against earmarks, why did so many GOP senators request money? [Click on 'version' 5 to see Excel spreadsheet.]
GOP Top Ten in the *solo and with other senators category* of earmark requests:
Number one: Thad Cochran (R-Mississippi): 472 million and change
Number two: Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi): 396 million and change.
Number five: David Vitter (R-Louisiana): over 249 million and change
Number six: Kit Bond (R- Missouri): 248 million and change
Number nine: Dick Shelby (R-Alabama): 219 million and change
Number ten: Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa): 199 million and change
Six out of 10 favoring the fiscally responsible GOP.
Dollar totals in top ten (rounded down to the nearest million):
GOP= 1.78 billion
Democrat= 1.08 billion
It's bad on both sides of the aisle-- but one party claims fiscal conservatism and "no-earmarks" as part of it's ideology.
