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Vitter Slams 'Bloated' Omnibus While Benefiting From $249 Million In Earmarks

Think Progress | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

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Republicans like Sens. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) and Lindsey Graham (R-AZ), have been attacking the $410 billion omnibus spending bill, claiming that it has too ...

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Reid Spokesman: Anti-Earmark Crusader A "Partisan Hack"

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.05.2009 | Politics

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Speaking on the Senate floor on Wednesday evening, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) got under the fingernails of the government watchdog group Taxpay...

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Senate Rejects McCain In Bipartisan Fashion

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.04.2009 | Politics

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The bottom line of this story is that nine out of forty-one Republican senators just broke ranks with their party and voted to strip a McCain amendment from a budget bill.

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"Earmarks" in Omnibus Budget Bill: Not Pork, Just Obama Proving He Can Be Taught

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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So there's some pork in the budget, and Republicans want it out, and if some of it comes out then they can claim they made Obama blink, and maybe they'll vote for it? Wow!

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Red States Gobble Up Omnibus Earmarks

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi. According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Co...

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Congressional Democrats Made a Big Mistake Including Earmarks in the Spending Bill

Mitchell Bard | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

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Democrats in Congress could really use a lesson in the art of politics from President Obama. They have handed the Republicans a legitimate issue to complain about, and there isn't a single good reason for it.

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Finally, a President Who Works for Workers

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 03.28.2009 | Business

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Obama is seeking leadership in a crucial area -- he wants factories and workers in the U.S. to make the parts -- not just import them.

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Line-Item Veto: Obama Administration Would "Love To Take That For A Test Drive"

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

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In his press briefing on Wednesday, Robert Gibbs offered the strongest assertion to date that President Obama would like to see the restoration of the...

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GOP Hates Earmarks - Except The Ones Its Members Sponsor: McClatchy

McClatchy | David Lightman | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Republicans are expected to deliver a daylong rant Wednesday against Democratic spending legislation, yet the bill is loaded with thousands of pet pro...

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Reid Defends Earmarks In Budget Bill

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) moved Tuesday to reframe the debate around earmarks, hoping to restore some of the spending power to Congre...

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McCain Repeats Palin's Attack On Fruit Fly Research

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 02.07.2009 | Politics

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John McCain reached back into the presidential campaign on Wednesday to pull out a scientific critique that had first been made by his running mate, A...

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Obama To Ban Earmarks From Stimulus Bill

MSNBC | Domenico Montanaro | Posted 02.06.2009 | Politics

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On his second day in Washington, President-elect Obama met with his budget team and promised no earmarks will be in the stimulus plan. "We are goin...

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Obama Stimulus Won't Include Earmarks, Biden Says

Wall Street Journal | JONATHAN WEISMAN | Posted 01.24.2009 | Business

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Vice President-elect Joe Biden released new details on the incoming administration's planned stimulus package, saying 85% of the three million jobs to...

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Obama Drug Czar Pick Tied to Christian Rehab Linked to Contributor Charged with $3.5 Billion Fraud (Updated)

Maia Szalavitz | Posted 01.09.2009 | Politics

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Ramstad's support for Teen Challenge shows a disregard for evidence-based treatment and either a willingness to abandon his beliefs about treating addiction or a failure to investigate what kinds of programs he funds.

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Lipstick on Doggerel

Evan Eisenberg | Posted 12.04.2008 | Politics

I wrote this bit of doggerel a while ago but only just got around to making it hyperdoggerel by equipping the stanza numbers with links. (Warning: VI...

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The Candy Store Congress

Laura MacCleery and Matthew R. Welch | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business

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It is no coincidence that those who benefit from earmarks tend to support lawmakers who are in the best position, by virtue of their status or committee positions, to dole them out.

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McConnell Promises More Pork Despite McCain Threats

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

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Unless you have been residing under a rock this past year, you know that one of John McCain's signature platform pieces is his pledge to eliminate ear...

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Top 10 Lies, Non-truths, Half-truths, Stretches, Reaches and Fibs Proving McCain Will Say Anything to Be President

Brett Ashley McKenzie | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

This is a compilation of statements and allegations made by McCain or campaign surrogates that have been refuted, supported by the proof that they are mostly, partially, or completely false.

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Sex, Drugs and Earmarks: Virgil Goode makes his party proud

Michael Rogers | Posted 11.15.2008 | Politics

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Virgil Goode Anti-gay Congressman "How does Virgil Goode (R-VA) square his condemnation of gay and lesbian Americans while helping to make Eden's Cur...

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A Thought from the 1st Debate: Loopholes vs. Earmarks

Paul Abrams | Posted 11.05.2008 | Politics

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McCain has voted for loads of tax loopholes during his 26 years in the Senate. Why loopholes are morally superior to earmarks escapes me.

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Creating Candidate Palin: How McCain Spun This One A Turn Too Far

Les Gara | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

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Palin's nomination has created unusual common ground for Alaskans. Whether we support her or not, we've been furrowing our eyebrows a lot lately as we watch the McCain campaign re-write Alaska history.

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McCain: I'll Veto Earmarks, But I Won't Vote Against Them

HuffingtonPost.com | Jed Lewison | Posted 10.31.2008 | Politics

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Just two days after again promising the nation that he would veto every single spending bill with earmarks to cross his desk, John McCain said on Sund...

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Bear DNA and John McCain's Silly Science

Robert Schlesinger | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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We've all heard John McCain's tired joke about the pork barrell spending on bear DNA (a paterniy issue or a criminal one -- so funny the first dozen t...

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John McCain: Unfit for the Presidency

Paul Jenkins | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

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If we agree, as most of us do outside of the far-right abortion-obsessed axis, that Palin is unfit to serve as president, then McCain, the man solely responsible for giving her that opportunity, is unfit too. It's that simple.

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McCain Pulls Out the Heartstrings: Pity He Didn't Use a Violin Instead of a Kazoo

Michael Russnow | Posted 10.27.2008 | Politics

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I felt bad for Obama, who treated McCain with a level of respect, even as McCain often had a frozen condescending grin while the Democrat spoke.

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