Do NOT show this to blankfist!

It's a win-win situation, Paul earmarks the funds for his district, then takes a "principled" stand, and votes against the spending, but when it inevitably passes anyway, he gets to take credit for bringing the money to his home district.

All the other Republicans do it too.

That said, Paul's right, earmarks are a made up issue. If Republicans think it's a bad practice, they could have put an end to it permanently while they were in power.

Even if you eliminated all earmarks, it wouldn't change the amount of spending by one cent; it'd just mean individual congresscritters can't put a stamp on portions of it and say "I personally want this bacon to go to this project".

FWIW, Democrats are not saints on this topic either, but we have our own anti-earmark Senators too (Claire McCaskill and Russ Feingold). Just neither of them based the entire economic leg of a presidential run on ending earmarks. Though ours are a little less hypocritical about spending -- they aren't in the habit of earmarking a bill, voting against it for the "irresponsible spending," then basing a reelection campaign on having secured funds for their state.

I can almost hear the skin around my Sifting Democrat friends' mouths wrinkling upward around a smile of devilish joy. Haha. "The final dagger in blankfist's Ron Paul Utopia! Bwahahaha!"

Sorry, but, this isn't news to me. And it's not damning even if Fox News disagrees with it.

If you cannot see the difference between spending in the billions (trillions!) we don't have versus millions already allocated, I'm not sure what to say. Dr. Paul points out in his book how Republican politicians tend to use these "pork" earmarks as talking points, claiming they are wasteful spending.

But, Repubs always want to cut the pork that costs in the low millions ("Democrats want to spend $12 million on funding a study on dead aborted kangaroo fetuses! It's pork! It's pork, I says!"). But, never do you hear them clamor against cutting the billions and trillions spent on endless wars.

The Cavuto technique, Go to commercial as soon as you get pwned.

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The Cavuto technique, Go to commercial as soon as you get pwned.


Ya no kidding dude. It is funny how television politics work.

I don't know anything about earmarks really, just what I context together from all these news shows. What is it exactly? To me it sounds like assigning to use general money for projects. Like you have x dollars allotted, then you earmark to to set it for real use. Is that about it? Cause if that is what it is, earmarks a really are a non-issue for spending...the money is already spent. Anyone have deeper knowledge into this?

^ You have it right.

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