They just can’t help themselves………
Here are some of the special-interest provisions that are now part of the Wall Street bailout legislation. The bill started at 3 pages, grew to 106 pages, and is now 451 pages.
Film and Television Productions (Sec. 502)
Wooden Arrows designed for use by children (Sec. 503)
6 page package of earmarks for litigants in the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident, Alaska (Sec. 504)
Virgin Island and Puerto Rican Rum (Section 308)
American Samoa (Sec. 309)
Mine Rescue Teams (Sec. 310)
Mine Safety Equipment (Sec. 311)
Domestic Production Activities in Puerto Rico (Sec. 312)
Indian Tribes (Sec. 314, 315)
Railroads (Sec. 316)
Auto Racing Tracks (317)
District of Columbia (Sec. 322)
Wool Research (Sec. 32)
There’s more……
Hat Tip to LST Commenter hefitz
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What do we do? These people are incorrigible. Do they have no redeeming qualities? I am just astounded at their audacity as we keep saying NO.
Enough is enough!
The American political system in all its glory…
What a sham…
This is something tailor made for McCain to LOUDLY denounce.
No one is sufficiently intelligent to comprehend what all is included in the bill. So this is how our glorious Senate works.
#4 - We can only PRAY that McCain puts a big ole BUG in Mrs Palin’s ear to do JUST THAT and TONIGHT!
To be fair, a lot of those items listed above are just extensions of effective dates of existing legislation - they aren’t just about spending earmarks.
The pertinent question here is which Senator put in which earmarks. Please don’t tell me it can be done anonymously. Honestly, we need to find this out, if anyone knows how.
Horror of horrors, what if McCain himself put some in?
I have never been so pi$$ed at our elected officials. They are operating under somebody elses mandate, not the peoples. We need to flush the bowl democrats and repubs alike.
It’s time for a LINE ITEM VOTE for all appropriations.
Maybe Nancy Pelosi could give back her money from the Government for her Vineyard. ( she could make up for it by selling ‘milk’ to Ben and Jerry’s.)
#10 pimlico
It would take a Constitutional Amendment for that. Not that I’m opposed to it (I am much in favor), but the USSC ruled it unconstitutional in the ’90s.
#8 fmike.
McCain has never submitted an earmark.
I doubt he would start now.
Raiderdav, perhaps that is so, however it appears to me these extensions are purchased yes votes by Representatives that want these things continued. IF this is a crisis larger than any we have experienced in my life time, then we need a bill with items that pertain ONLY TO THIS ISSUE. These Congressmen/women, sicken me.
As to who put in the pork, I figure there may be a correlation between the states that stand to benefit, and a senator that was originally against the bill.
The house is not likely to have trouble passing “No Banker Left Behind, Part Deaux”
I can’t believe that I am actually agreeing with the smackster; flush the out and the sooner the better. Kevin Brady (Rino) the Woodlands needs to be defeated! VOTE FOR KENT HARGETT if you are tired of being serviced by Kevin Brady
#15: I heard Brady on the radio this a.m. He said he didn’t like but voted for it because it had to be passed. WTF? A bad bill should never be passed. It is like cutting off your leg because you have a sliver. It indicates to me that rather read and understand the bill, do what’s right, he chose the easy course vote yes and hope nobody notices. I think people noticed.
There is a serious need for some chlorine in the Congressional/Senatorial pool.
An ambulance with a critical patient rushes past only to pull in to the drive through of the Chinese restaurant to pick up some DIM SUM PORK …
NOW is the time to pick up the telephone and scream, as Americans. They are forcing carbon credits down our throats. For the love of Pete, and your grandchildren, make at least two telephone calls right now.
4&6
Earlier today I heard Gov. Palin tell Hannity on his radio show that she and McCain are both for this turkey. She said (sounding to me as if she was reading from a prepared text) that the crisis has hit main street and middle American families and that “doing nothing” isn’t the solution. I’m losing faith in this ticket by the hour but there is nowhere to turn.
#13 Right - I agree with you on all that. Just wanted to clarify that these lists aren’t just pork spending items - some of them are even tax cut extensions.
The whole system of bribing representatives for votes is disgusting to me and I wish there was some constitutional way to implement a line item veto to try and trim that fat.
It is no wonder the country is so screwed up; the idiots we elect to Congress can not keep their eye on the ball long enough to deal with the issue at hand. Always have to be looking forward to the next votes they can get by providing goodies to those who don’t deserve them. It just shows they have no interest in really solving the problem. If they can’t have the 700 billion with no strings they will cloud the picture so bad no one knows what is going on. They certainly don’t in Washington DC.
San Fran Nan has been caught with her fingers in the till giving her hubby money from her PAC fund. Apparently she favored the legislation to stop that kind of stuff and it passed the house but failed in the Senate. Guess that makes everything okay.
Centralization of finance. Let me repeat: that’s fascism.
Is it time for some Tar and Feathers?
Add note: When I attended the County Convention and almost break time, when Kevin Brady got up to speak, most of the room left. Did he take the hint that his own party wasn’t happy? I think not.
Kevin Brady is a pudd. He voted against the anti-horse slaughter bill (that passed anyway) because he thought that only “old and decrepid” horses got slaughtered, and I let it go. Not this time.
#23: Darn skippy. Either that, or stake them to fire ant piles.
Or is it time for some Tea…?
25
Kinkyyyy. Sign here.–Hedley Lamarr
That wimpy, brown-nose, spineless excuse for a man, Lindsey Graham, with a quivering voice, is going to vote for this &^^& bill as it stands. What a puke.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/10/01/kill-the-bailout-the-vote-draws-near/
Where’s a Neutron Bomb when you really need one?
Apparantly our RINO senators have voted tonight to destroy America as we know it. Why should I vote for a Democrat who pretends to be a Republican when I can vote for a real Democrat? I will never vote for these traitors again as long as I live. I will vote for McCain reluctantly because I do not want a Facist, communist, socialist, white hating man with a racist wife in the white house, but I don’t care who is in the senate - look what happened to Bailout Bill. I wish I could spit in their face tonight