Sen. Kyl Grabs $200 Milliion in Pork After No Earmarks Pledge

[Political Junky]

Sen. Kyl Grabs $200 Million in Pork After No Earmarks Pledge | ChattahBox News Blog

(ChattahBox Political News)—Republican lawmakers, anxious to appease tea party members and follow through with their campaign rhetoric to end earmarks, are now engaged in comical linguistic exercises to exempt their pork, as not earmarks under the official definition. The Associated Press reports that Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) did just that, by quietly adding $200 million in pork for his state to a recent bill funding the Pigford settlement for discrimination claims made by minority and Native Americans farmers against the federal government. But he had denounced earmarks, as wasteful spending just days earlier. And on his official website, Kyl asks, “But, if legislators can’t muster the will to eliminate a small portion of spending, how will they be able to make the bigger, more difficult decisions?” Apparently, earmarks and pork are only wasteful when Democrats do it. And when Republicans add earmarks to bills, their pork somehow rises to the level of vitally important infrastructure projects, which magically don’t fall under the official earmark definition. What an ingenious scam.
Earmark hypocrisy is nothing new for Kyl. Last year he raised holy hell about Democratic earmarks in the Stimulus bill, but the year before, he had requested that $118 million in pork be carved out from from the federal budget to be used for special projects for his state. <more>

 

[Queen]

Who here really believes any of these bums when they claim they want to end earmarks?

First of all, earmarks are how the government splits up the money for each district.

Secondly, they are just lying to the gullible tea party idiots who have no idea how government works.

 

[California Girl]

Same topic, different thread. Do less drugs.

 

[Revere]

Hey, which pet projects did Congress vote on in the Stimulus package?

 

[Meister]

The republicans made the issue on it...they better walk the walk with it. I know it's just politicing when they say it, but they could easily lose their grip in the next election.

 

[Revere]

Yeah, well, Democrats ran on de-funding the Iraq war in 2006.

 

[Revere]

Certain individual Republicans ran on it.

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Certain individual Republicans ran on it.

partisan apologist

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Yeah, well, Democrats ran on de-funding the Iraq war in 2006.

names and quotes?

 

[Revere]

The legislative branch makes appropriations, not the executive branch.

 

[California Girl]

I would recommend that the lefties might want to get the actual facts of this 'pork' before they get their asses handed to them.

 

[Meister]

I would recommend that the lefties might want to get the actual facts of this 'pork' before they get their asses handed to them.

very true, Cali Girl

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

The legislative branch makes appropriations, not the executive branch.

Captain Obvious Strikes Again!!!

 

[Modbert]

Yeah, well, Democrats ran on de-funding the Iraq war in 2006.

Trying to make excuses for the GOP best you can partisan hack.

 

[California Girl]

I would recommend that the lefties might want to get the actual facts of this 'pork' before they get their asses handed to them.

very true, Cali Girl

Let's just watch and see if they realize.




* I'm also highly entertained that the OP links to a blog.

 

[Revere]

Yeah, well, Democrats ran on de-funding the Iraq war in 2006.

Trying to make excuses for the GOP best you can partisan hack.

Why should Congress not vote on appropriations?

Should Barack Obama be the one to control a slush fund?

 

[Missourian]

More Political Junk...

Kyl's proposal was added to settle a lawsuit American Indians had brought against the government over water rights.

He had it attached to a bill that settled a lawsuit by Blacks and Indians over farming right.

It wasn't an earmark.

No one is calling it an earmark except the loony left.

If he attached a request to build a 200 million dollar airport or water park or such, I would be up in arms, but it isn't.

It follows the intent of the legislation 100%.

 

[Revere]

More Political Junk...

Kyl's proposal was to American Indians for a lawsuit that the Indians had brought against the government.

He had it attached to a bill that paid off a lawsuit by Blacks and Indians over farming right.

It wasn't an earmark.

No one is calling it an earmark except the loony left.

If he attached a request to build a 200 million dollar airport or water park or such, I would be up in arms, but it isn't.

It follows the intent of the legislation 100%.

Imagine that. The lefties are falling all over themselves to fuck American Indians out of some money.

 

[Missourian]

WASHINGTON &#8212; Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks &#8212; money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest &#8212; was short-lived.


Only three days after GOP senators and senators-elect renounced earmarks, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, got himself a whopping $200 million to settle an Arizona Indian tribe's water rights claim against the government.


Kyl slipped the measure into a larger bill sought by President Barack Obama and passed by the Senate on Friday to settle claims by black farmers and American Indians against the federal government. Kyl's office insists the measure is not an earmark, and the House didn't deem it one when it considered a version earlier this year.

Republicans' ban on earmarks was short-lived - Politics - Capitol Hill - msnbc.com

 

[Missourian]

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