Subscribe‘Fiscally Responsible’ Hillary Tops In Earmarks
Actual reportage from the Washington Post:
Candidates’ Earmarks Worth Millions
Of Front-Runners, McCain Abstained
By Paul Kane
Thursday, February 14, 2008; A01Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year’s spending bills, placing her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks, according to a new study by a nonpartisan budget watchdog group.
Working with her New York colleagues in nearly every case, Clinton supported almost four times as much spending on earmarked projects as her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), whose $91 million total placed him in the bottom quarter of senators who seek earmarks, the study showed.
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the likely GOP presidential nominee, was one of five senators to reject earmarks entirely, part of his long-standing view that such measures prompt needless spending.
As a campaign issue, earmarks highlight significant differences in the spending philosophies of the top three candidates. Clinton has repeatedly supported earmarks as a way to bring home money for projects, while Obama adheres to a policy of using them only to support public entities.
McCain is using his blanket opposition to earmarked spending as a regular line of attack against Clinton, even running an Internet ad mocking her $1 million request for a museum devoted to the Woodstock music festival. Obama has been criticized for using a 2006 earmark to secure money for the University of Chicago hospital where his wife worked until last year.
The new report, by Taxpayers for Common Sense, is the first to show all the earmarks each lawmaker added to spending bills for an entire fiscal year. It notes the explosive growth of the practice, which amounted to more than $18 billion in fiscal 2008…
The new report showed that Clinton co-sponsored a $1.6 million earmark to fund technology development by a defense contractor and steered $3 million to the Rochester Institute of Technology for a fuel-cell-technology program. Another $1.6 million earmark she supported went to Weidlinger Associates, a New York engineering consulting firm working on shock testing for naval vessels.
Obama, meanwhile, helped steer $3.4 million to the Rock Island Arsenal for a military fire and police building, and was the sole sponsor of a measure seeking $750,000 for an education initiative at Benedictine University in Illinois.
McCain, who has helped lead efforts to strip some earmarks from Senate bills, has not focused on the money headed to his home state…
Clinton stands behind her earmarked projects as a sign of her work for constituents…
Her total is unusually large for someone who does not serve on the Senate Appropriations Committee, where earmarks are doled out, usually on a members-first basis. Of the 10 largest recipients, Clinton is the only senator not on the committee, the report found…
McCain has used his opposition to earmarks to rally conservatives reluctant to support his presidential campaign, regularly criticizing Clinton for such spending.
He attacked her Woodstock museum request, saying at an October GOP debate that he was “tied up” and unable to attend the 1969 music festival — a sly reference to his time as a prisoner of war in Vietnam. “That kind of thing is going to stop when I’m president of the United States of America,” McCain said earlier this month of Clinton’s earmarks.
Her item was rejected in a Senate vote last fall, among the few earmarks that were turned down in a House or Senate vote.
Mind you, Mrs. Clinton, her husband and even her (never pimped) daughter all constantly assure us that she is very fiscally conservative.
Is it possible they are lying to us?
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February 14th, 2008 at 11:04 am
You know, if she follows the ball with her eyes when you move side to side & up and down.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
SG;…”Is it possible they are lying to us?”
“[She is the] most fiscally conservative candidate running [and] the only candidate who tells you how she’ll pay for everything.” —Chelsea Clinton stumping for her mom.
Perish the thought!
BTW, this picture slays me. How could that superdelegate kid eat his breakfast with that sitting across from him?…..”Better double-bag that order Barney” (ugh!)
February 14th, 2008 at 11:35 am
Chelsea looks like Chucky.
Now that she’s willfully entered public life, she’s fair game. Compare/contrast the MSM treatment of the Bush Twins versus Chucky Clinton. I will never set foot inside Chuy’s after their manager called 9-1-1 to report that the president’s daughter had a Margarita – besides, there are better TexMex spots in Austin and Houston.
A host of a scarcely watched cable news-talk show says she’s being “pimped out” and gets suspended, but when her mother shamelessly put her at the scene of the 9-11 WTC attack (when she wasn’t), the MSM doesn’t care.
Chucky Clinton reaffirms that politics is show business for ugly people.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
From the New York Times:
February 14th, 2008 at 12:29 pm
“Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year’s spending bills, placing her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks,”
This is the same Senator who can’t be bothered to show up for a roll call vote on so-called torture. But she had time to rush in and rip off taxpayers for 340 million. I guess defining torture is not as important as ripping off taxpayers.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:46 pm
With those googly eyes maybe Chelsea is in the early stages of Grave’s Disease. I seem to remember other White House occupants suffering from it (Barbara Bush??) Bug eyes are one of the symptoms.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
greasywrench;….”maybe Chelsea is in the early stages of….”
On the other hand, maybe she’s just coyoye-ugly!
February 14th, 2008 at 2:50 pm
Unless she’s officially on the campaign staff, won’t she have to claim all the travel and accomodations as income, and won’t the expenditures for same be disallowed as campaign expenses?
Just curious.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
-’Unless she’s officially on the campaign staff, won’t she have to claim all the travel and accomodations as income, and won’t the expenditures for same be disallowed as campaign expenses?’-
John - She’s a Clinton - it is her right and she is entitled to it. All on the taxpayer’s dime, of course. Guess who is going to be running in 2016?!? She’ll probably cite her lifetime of child abuse as her reason for being ‘entitled’ .
Ann Coulter said that the Clintons made their dysfunctional family a National dysfunction - guess they are just grooming us to keep it up for another generation.
Egads - First Lady, President and then First Mama - we really, truly need to Stop Her Now. Remember in November - Anyone But Clinton. It’s as simple as ABC.
February 14th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
wardmama4;….”She’s a Clinton ….”
Silly me…I keep viewing these things from the perspective of a law-abiding citizen. I don’t know what came over me.
SLAP!! Thanks……I…I’m…I’m OK now. Really!
February 14th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Glad to be of service. . .
Also remember reading somewhere that of all the ‘earmarks’ and ‘pork’ the Freshman Dems were top of the list - guess for Dems, it doesn’t take years for coruption and the money to ‘get’ to them. . .
February 14th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
She makes the same extreme facial expressions as her mother — same horse teeth — they are both very creepy looking.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:06 pm
“She makes the same extreme facial expressions as her mother…”
Neither of them used to do this.
They have both been taught by the same political consultant(s). This is too make them seem more lifelike and likable.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:40 pm
oh for Pete’s sake, can *someone* PLEASE tell the Clinton wimin to stop with the goofy facial expressions??? The “whites of my eyes” looks a bit creepy and crazed. Geeze…..just STOP it!!! I know it takes a lot of practice and all to strike that pose, I really do, but pleeeeease…..
I’m almost willing to endure 4 years of McCain or even B. Hussein Obama in order not to have to see 4 years of these silly, goofy and just plain creepy facial expressions. What emotion are they trying to portray for us????
February 14th, 2008 at 8:57 pm
That photo has caused me some major emotional damage. Chillz-ea bears a remarkable resemblance to that little voodoo doll that terrorized Karen Black in “The Trilogy of Terror.” Someone keep the butcher knife out of her crazy little hands.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:13 pm
“SG, They have both been taught by the same political consultant(s). This is too make them seem more lifelike and likable.”
Well its not working on me, Its creeping me out.
They look like Caricatures done by a starving artist at a carnival.
I would at least feel better if we could throw fast balls at them.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I have yet to hear Chelsea Teeth speak, But that face gives me a clue.
Oh, hi superdelegate dude, My mom like so needs your vote!
And that Obama dude is so bogus, Its like gag me with a spoon, But my mom is so cool, She got me this super cool job at this place that’s like do anything I want cause like my dad was a president.
And I dont even show up for work, Cause like mom needs me on the campaign trail which is so tiresome.
Hey wanna see my Barbie collection, They are so rad, I have tons of them we could play dress up with them tonight. And I will even show you where I put the Ken doll if you vote my um mom cause she is the bomb and……..
February 14th, 2008 at 10:15 pm
“I have yet to hear Chelsea Teeth speak…”
She is just as boring and just as mendacious as her mother:
YouTube - 02/14 Hillary Clinton - Chelsea on Plans and Experience
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlFh8AYNJvU
She also says “um” a lot.
BTW, did you know Hillary has promised to extend full benefits to homosexual “partners” for social security recipients and all federal employees?
Well, she has, according to Chelsea:
YouTube - Chelsea Clinton On LGBT rights
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECoxNFtLRrA
But she is so fiscally responsible.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
Thanks SG, Now I need to wash my ears and eyes out.
I did manage to put one um in her dialog. ;-D