The Pork King Keeps His Crown

Published: January 14, 2008

The new earmark disclosure rules put into effect by Congress confirm the pre-eminence of Representative John Murtha at procuring eye-popping chunks of pork for contractors he helped put in business in Johnstown, Pa. The Pennsylvania Democrat, a power player on defense appropriations, exudes pride, not embarrassment, for delivering hundreds of millions of dollars in largesse to district beneficiaries. They, in turn, requite with hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/14/op...syahoo&emc=rss

I KNEW the Dems weren't serious about their PROMISE to end earmarks. I KNEW it was an empty promise just to get elected Majority. I KNEW they were lying. This should be.....and WILL BE....a BIG issue in the November election!!

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"This is a time for a national imperative not to fail in Iraq." Condoleeza Rice, January 11, 2007

Yes it should be. However, the republicans are no better, and don't even have it on their radar. So it will not be an issue because no one wants to promise to do anything about it anymore.

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"The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left."
Ecclesiastes 10:2 (NIV)

jp offered this above:now if he puts that money in his freezer does it then become an illegal bribe?

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“Mayor Palin fails to have a firm grasp of something very simple: the truth.”

[Frontiersman editorial, 2/7/97]

Yes, bubba. But for now, it's a legal bribe.

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Do you know what it's like to fall in the mud and get kicked... in the head... with an iron boot? Of course you don't, no one does. It never happens. It's a dumb question... skip it.