Earmarks! We can't live without them!

[timmgirvan]

I agree with DeMint.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

I agree with DeMint.

Do you realize that the, "bitterly criticized special deals given to Louisiana and Nebraska in December to secure Senate passage of health care legislation," are being removed from the health reform bill, by the Democrats during the reconciliation process, this weekend, right?

And the inclusion of the above is why the House Dems want to go through the dance of combining and voting upon the Senate bill with the reconcilation package?

[timmgirvan]

Originally Posted by Riot

Do you realize that the, "bitterly criticized special deals given to Louisiana and Nebraska in December to secure Senate passage of health care legislation," are being removed from the health reform bill, by the Democrats during the reconciliation process, this weekend, right?

And the inclusion of the above is why the House Dems want to go through the dance of combining and voting upon the Senate bill with the reconcilation package?

well, it would seem to me that you don't need the "scorched earth" reconciliation to get rid of the backroom deals!

[Riot]

Originally Posted by timmgirvan

well, it would seem to me that you don't need the "scorched earth" reconciliation to get rid of the backroom deals!

Tell that to your United States Senators, who wouldn't vote for the Senate bill until they got their pork. The House won't let them have it.

Reconciliation is also adding into the Senate bill (which basically doesn't do much by itself) cost containments.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Riot

Tell that to your United States Senators, who wouldn't vote for the Senate bill until they got their pork. The House won't let them have it.

Reconciliation is also adding into the Senate bill (which basically doesn't do much by itself) cost containments.

You think you can get 'your people' in line?

this is a whopping $48 billion package that must go down as the grandaddy of all earmarks.

Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.

Sickening

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html

[dellinger63]

Exhibit A is the "omnibus" spending bill Harry Reid is trying to push through the Senate. This monstrosity contains about 6,500 earmarks -- special provisions inserted on behalf of lobbyists to benefit special interests. The lobbyists get big fees, the interest groups get handouts and the politicians get rewarded with contributions from both.

It's a win-win-win for everyone -- except the taxpayers who finance this carousel of corruption.

We seem to have a pattern going! And it really stinks!

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...V2YtrTaFqHowYM

Earmarks are destroying this country...not really but I have a flair for the DRAMATIC.