Salting the Earth

[Townsend]

Reporters Jump Senators For Perceived Earmark Hypocrisy


http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/12/15/132083977/reporters-jump-senators-for-perceived-earmark-hypocrisy?ft=1&f=1001&sc=tw&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[Conan71]

So if I understand correctly, Thune and Cornyn didn't remove earmarks from this pile, but they are going to vote against the bill even though it's got millions in earmarks they requested.

Wow! The arrogance of these guys is stunning.  They learned nothing from midterm '10 other than they need to get the lip service out there.

[Townsend]

So if I understand correctly, Thune and Cornyn didn't remove earmarks from this pile, but they are going to vote against the bill even though it's got millions in earmarks they requested.

Wow! The arrogance of these guys is stunning.  They learned nothing from midterm '10 other than they need to get the lip service out there.

They want to leave them in so they can get them but still tell everyone they voted agin'it.

We've elected some specials folk...

Senators Stage Partisan Fight Over True Meaning Of Christmas

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2010/12/15/132086785/senators-partisan-fight-over-true-meaning-of-christmas#more

[dbacks fan]

And people wonder why I wanted to move to New Zealand 5 or 6 years ago.

[Conan71]

And people wonder why I wanted to move to New Zealand 5 or 6 years ago.

The BVI's are my escape route 

[Gaspar]

$4.6 M to dredge 6 ft out of Savannah River to make it easier for large cargo ships to get under the bridge and into the harbor. . .3.6 million of it is for the environmental impact study.   

[heironymouspasparagus]

Belize looks pretty good, too.

[TulsaMoon]

Thank you sir, may I have another.

[Gaspar]

Thank you sir, may I have another.

Ok. . .here's an award winner!



Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) proposed a $48 BILLION EARMARK that would redistribute wealth to the inner cities and gift money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.

The $48 billion would go to Cleaver's friend, a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of a non profit organization called the "Quality Day Campus."  The "Quality Day Campus" is registered as a Daycare Center that Mr. Mickens and his wife Cynthia operate out of their home!   

[Townsend]

Ok. . .here's an award winner!



Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) proposed a $48 BILLION EARMARK that would redistribute wealth to the inner cities and gift money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.

The $48 billion would go to Cleaver's friend, a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of a non profit organization called the "Quality Day Campus."  The "Quality Day Campus" is registered as a Daycare Center that Mr. Mickens and his wife Cynthia operate out of their home!   

Linky?

[Conan71]

$4.6 M to dredge 6 ft out of Savannah River to make it easier for large cargo ships to get under the bridge and into the harbor. . .3.6 million of it is for the environmental impact study.   

And I have driven past the $90,000 sidewalk in Boynton, Ok. paid for with stimulus funds.  There's nothing else in that town other than run-down houses, but they sure got a nice sidewalk that leads to nothing.

Here's a few losers from this years lard-fest (culled from various sources):

• $1 million for AFL-CIO training programs, requested by Sen. Tom Harkin (D., Iowa).

• $307,000 for research on small fruits, requested by Reps. Earl Blumenauer (D., Oregon), Norm Dicks (D., Wash.), Rick Larsen (D., Wash.), Kurt Schrader (D., Oregon), and  David Wu (D., Oregon) and Sens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.), Mike Crapo (R., Idaho), Jeff Merkley (D., Oregon), Patty Murray (D., Wash.), James Risch (R., Idaho), and Ron Wyden (D., Oregon).

• $350,000 for Cool Season Legume Research, which would  fund studies on what diseases harm and what improvements could help crops such as lentils and beans, requested by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D., Wash.) Kent Conrad (D., N.D.), Bryon Dorgan (D., N.D.) and Patty Murray (D., Wash.) and Reps. Norm Dicks (D., Wash.) and Earl Pomeroy (D., N.D.).

• $165,000 for maple research in Vermont, to further delve into the quality and food safety of syrup and to consider how current production methods affect tree health, requested by Sen. Patrick Leahy (D., Vermont).

• $1 million for arthropod damage control, requested by Sen. Harry Reid (D., Nev.).

• $40 million for a National Bio and Agro-defense facility in Kansas, requested by Sen. Sam Brownback (R., Kansas).

• Montana earmark for $300,000 to the Center for Asbestos Related Disease

• Declares Nevada a "Pacific Coast state" so it can get in on a few million dollars to protect salmon. 

• Funding for a study for a race-based "Native Hawaiian" government

• $400,000 to commemorate the1959 visit of Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to Iowa. The money would be used to build the Khrushchev in Iowa trail for bikers and hikers.

• McConnell's earmarks include $650,000 in taxpayer money to advance genetic technologies, $1 million for a blood center building and $4 million for marijuana eradication.

• $208,000 for management of beavers
• $94,000 for management of blackbirds
• $277,000 for management potato pests
• $235,000 for management of noxious weeds
• $500,000 for oyster safety
• $247,000 for virus-free wine grapes
• $522,000 for cranberry and blueberry disease

Here's the winner in my books, $10mm to honor the memory of the unindicted co-conspirator in the ab-scam scandal:

"One big earmark worth mentioning comes from five Democrats: Pennsylvania Rep. Robert Brady, Pennsylvania Rep. Mark Critz, Pennsylvania Rep. Chaka Fattah, Virginia Rep. Jim Moran and Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan. They're spending $10 million of taxpayer money to honor the memory of their controversial colleague, the late Rep. John Murtha.

"Who was the king of earmarks, according to many people, and a big defender of the earmark process, so it's ironic a memorial foundation in his name is getting funded through earmarks," Alexander said."

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/15/eveningnews/main7153980.shtml

[guido911]

Belize looks pretty good, too.

I freakin hate Belize.

[guido911]

Linky?

Here's something.

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html

[Gaspar]

Linky?

It's all over the news:
Heard it first on KRMG
http://mopns.com/2010/12/10/cleaver-asks-for-48-billion-earmark-for-mystery-project-seriously/
http://www.redstate.com/barrypopik/2010/12/16/liberal-media-watch-emanuel-cleaver-who-48-billion-earmark-what-i-cant-hear-you-la-la-la-la/
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html

This is the funniest. . .This is from the House website, listing all of Mr Cleaver's earmarks.  Scroll to the bottom.  The column wasn't large enough to display the number! 
http://www.house.gov/cleaver/pdf/earmarks.pdf


Oh you Libs, God bless you!

[Townsend]

Here's something.

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html

Currently Mickens operates this massive proposal out of his home but with Cleaver's help, this earmark could put him on the road to success.

I like that it says "It could".

Remember, this is only phase one.  Who knows how far he could go?

We're told we vote these folks in.