Prince of Pork

[VaYank5150]

Over the past two years, Rogers has requested $175,613,300 in earmarks, including funding for a cheetah protection nonprofit that his daughter works for.

“Did you show up at the polls on Nov. 2 for nothing? It seems that way,” conservative blogger Erick Erickson wrote Wednesday morning, urging readers to call their lawmakers before the GOP conference formally approved the steering committee’s recommendation. “If you believe the GOP must change their ways, you must then fight against Hal Rogers’s appointment and support Jack Kingston instead,” he wrote.



Read more: 'Prince of Pork' to Approps chair - Simmi Aujla - POLITICO.com

THIS ******* guy is the best the new "conservative" GOP has to send to chair the Appropriations Committee? Great job, Tea Party!

 

[editec]

Democrat or Republican, they all complain about pork, but all work hard to bring home the bacon to their communities.

 

[VaYank5150]

So, where is the Tea Party outrage???

 

[California Girl]

Former Earmark Fan Worries Fiscal Hardliners - WSJ.com

Mark Meckler, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots, added, "You couldn't possibly choose to send a worse message to the people who just drove this election."

 

[theDoctorisIn]

I say the Republican party will marginalize the "tea party" completely within the next 2 years.

We'll never hear from them again.