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Pulled Pork Sangies, Anyone?

March 11, 2009 By chimpschump

Even the suggestion that Obama still wants to pursue earmark reform prompted pushback from a top House Democrat. "I don't think the White House has the ability to tell us what to do," House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., defiantly told … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: director(s), earmark, marina-del-ray, pork

Palin’s porky $26 million Gravina road to nowhere

September 20, 2008 By Pablo

Joyously cross-posted at Red Mass Group. Sarah Palin was for the Bridge to Nowhere (linking Gravina Island to Ketchikan) before she was against it.  The access road is another story.  According to the LA Times, the death of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: bridge-to-nowhere, earmarks, pork, sarah-palin, waste

A “no brainer” for Hillary

April 28, 2008 By Jack Mitchell

Timing is everything they say! Clinton turns attention to observatory in Puerto Rico Jeannette Rivera-lyles | Sentinel Staff Writer April 25, 2008 The financially strapped Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has a new patron in New York … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clinton, pork, puerto-rico

Conservatism: Spreading The Disease

March 12, 2008 By joeltpatterson

It's not just that the conservatives made a mistake about Ab-Only--it is that the conservatives' goal was never to reduce disease, never to fight the viruses and bacteria that parasitically destroy people's health. The goal was pork for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: abstinence, conservatism, mccain, national, pork, public-health

Clinton Dynasty & Federal Pork (2.2 Billion)

February 5, 2008 By Jack Mitchell

Hillary Clinton Reigns as Queen of Federal Pork By Kevin Hassett Oct. 8 (Bloomberg) -- Democrats came into power this year promising meaningful earmark reform to a U.S. electorate that was rightly disgusted with Congress's free-spending … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: clinton, earmarks, pork

Travaglini and DiMasi show True Blue Spirit

December 15, 2006 By saintkermit

If the front page story in Globe today can be believed, Robert E. Travaglini and to a less extent Sal DiMasi showed the type of true blue spirit (of the kind that killed the Clean Elections Law and hasn't let IRV see the light of day) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: User Tagged With: dimasi, hope, legislature, massachusetts, patrick, pork, travaglini

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