Who's the Pork-Resisting Hero?
This new report gives John McCain a perfect "100" score in resisting pork projects while in the Senate, and "88" over the course of his entire time in the Senate and Congress. Had McCain been present for all of the votes, his score would have labeled him a public "Super Hero." Instead, McCain is the lower "Hero."The report is from The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste.
Obama? He scored only "10" last year and an "18" in his 3 years in the Senate. Biden? He scored a "ZERO!" last year, and just "22" in his three decade career.
Obama and Biden earned the label "Hostile."
(Sarah Palin was not scored because the ratings only evaluated those in Congress and the Senate.)
Labels: Barack Obama, citizens against government waste, Government Pork, haikula, http://www.cagw.org, joe biden, john mccain, sarah palin
Posted by Shelby York @ 9/10/2008 12:11:00 PM
19 Comments:
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THE PICTURE LOOKS LIKE OPRAH THE RACIST PIG!!!
The Associated Press: McCain and Palin castigate the earmarks she seeks
Could be McBush learned to launder his money better than when he and the rest of the Keating Five ripped off the US public for Billions during the Savings and Loan conflagration.
Thank you Igor. Yeah, what about all the millions your Palin earmarked for her pet projects. The reason they dont' want her speaking to the press is that she will embarrass the entire campaign with her stupidity. She can't answer any questioins on foreign matters, doesn't know a thing aside from what happens in Alaska but people can really be stupid.
Congratulations, 2:15!
Yes, it seems like Oprah really got herself into something she pledged to not do: get involved in politics.
Anyway, 2:45, you're talking about something that not even the Obama people bring up because it was dead in the water years ago. Nothing stuck to McCain. Otherwise, show us proof.
But in the same step, maybe you can comment on THIS subject.
Hi 3:02,
Please don't be a FOO!
Sarah Palin is going to be in THIS WEEK and interviewed by Charlie Gibson.
You are a goober if you don't know that GOVERNORS don't make or request earmarks. SENATORS do. When Palin found out what the bridge would cost the state, she declined the funds.
If you don't know this already, consider yourself educated, courtesty of Haikula.
Got that, Coffee Cakes?
Courtesty = Courtesy
Love it - "If McCain had been there for all the votes." He also missed lots of votes on key veterans' assistance bills. He is a no-show and a no care.
Hi Cula as for your initial request before you found out it was true and deleted your own comment.
Here it is and if you want more there's plenty of it
The Keating Five
Dan Nowicki, Bill Muller
The Arizona Republic
Mar. 1, 2007 10:41 AM
McCain owns up to his mistake this way:
"I was judged eventually, after three years, of using, quote, poor judgment, and I agree with that assessment."
Among the Keating Five, McCain took the most direct contributions from Keating. But the investigation found that he was the least culpable, along with Glenn. McCain attended the meetings but did nothing afterward to stop Lincoln's death spiral.
Keating was no ordinary constituent to McCain.
On Oct. 8, 1989, The Arizona Republic revealed that McCain's wife and her father had invested $359,100 in a Keating shopping center in April 1986, a year before McCain met with the regulators.
The paper also reported that the McCains, sometimes accompanied by their daughter and baby-sitter, had made at least nine trips at Keating's expense, sometimes aboard the American Continental jet. Three of the trips were made during vacations to Keating's opulent Bahamas retreat at Cat Cay.
McCain also did not pay Keating for some of the trips until years after they were taken, after he learned that Keating was in trouble over Lincoln. Total cost: $13,433
The Keating Five became synonymous for the kind of political influence that money can buy. As the S&L failure deepened, the sheer magnitude of the losses hit the press. Billions of dollars had been squandered. The five senators were linked as the gang who shilled for an S&L bandit.
S&L "trading cards" came out. The Keating Five card showed Charles Keating holding up his hand, with a senator's head adorning each finger. McCain was on Keating's pinkie.
Charlie Keating always took care of his friends, especially those in politics. McCain was no exception.
In 1982, during McCain's first run for the House, Keating held a fund-raiser for him, collecting more than $11,000 from 40 employees of American Continental Corp. McCain would spend more than $550,000 to win the primary and the general election.
In 1983, as McCain contemplated his House re-election, Keating hosted a $1,000-a-plate dinner for him, even though McCain had no serious competition. When McCain pushed for the Senate in 1986, Keating was there with more than $50,000.
By 1987, McCain had received about $112,000 in political contributions from Keating and his associates.
McCain was eventually censured by the US House of Representetives
McCain refers to it as my asterisk
Is this supposed to be informative and from a fair source?
The Fox Republican News Network?
And these people are supposed to be an independent, "Think Tank"?
Shit they are a conservative front group who has already endorsed McCain and will tweak information to suit the Conservative agendas they espouse.
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) is non-profit group that has campaigned on behalf of the tobacco industry and in favour of Microsoft and against open source software
Get real, and at least partially honest DUM DUM!
Haiku:
She said "No thanks" AFTER the hoopla against the Bridge throughout the nation.
Yet she kept the $...which is considered an EARMARK!
Haikula:
The fact is that Palin supported the Bridge to Nowhere funds until the federal government said that they wouldn't fund the project.
Then, in an attempt to make lemonade from lemons, she opposed money for that project but accepted the same amount of money for other pork barrel projects.
Before spouting the party line, it's safer to do some fact checking.
Well said 4:20. Can you take her out with a bong hit, Mayor Sam?
My previous link appears to be dead, here is a fresh one:
The Associated Press: McCain and Palin castigate the earmarks she seeks
Boy, the liberals are really getting desparate... just as Villar will be in February when the poll numbers come out.
Michael Finnegan
CD-5
Villar was right to back Hillary as the winning-est candidate -- Obama and Nancy Pelosi, Howard Dean and the kindmakers of the party f'ed up out of jealousy of Hillary.
People are figuring out that she was right: he made all sorts of promises to all sides to get the nod, stuff he can't pay for because it would cost billions and billions and he's never run anything in his life or balanced a budget. Like she did with bill as Governor and as Pres, he left a big surplus.
If they lose the race to this newbie from nowhere, it's their doing.
Yes, you're right Michael.
Sarah Palin is buried so deep in Obama's head that he just can't stop talking about her.
And earlier today, Joe Biden admitted that "Hillary Clinton might've been a better VP choice."
Let the gaffing begin...
McCain looks better all the time! Who would have ever thought that the conservative would be the one doing the "right thing"?
I thought this was a liberal blog site, but im finding out more good things about my republican candidate than I am on the Fox news site.
Im sorry folks, but Obama may be a handsome man and a good speaker, but his politics are not any better than most of his democrat coworkers. Any one of those other senators could have been just as good a candidate. . .
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