Another Democrat New Deal problem or Obama tells us about FDR’s imaginary housing bail out.

Barack Obama threatens TV stations to get them to stop running NRA ads attacking him. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

Missouri Governor Matt Blunt calls Obama out for “police state tactics” (Hat Tip: Sister Toldjah.)

Obama campaign bans signs at a Virginia rally. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

Sorry, foreigners, who’d like to vote for Obama, only U.S. citizens can vote UNFORTUNATELY.

First goal of an Obama Presidency: 125,000 more dead unborn children a year.

Obama’s snake oil faith tour gets panned in Lynchburg.

What’s saving us from Barbarians at the gate? According to Joe Biden, trial lawyers and labor unions.

Sarah Palin stands up for “Under God.” (Hat Tip: Wizbang Blog.)

Plus was John McCain right in calling for Chris Cox’s resignation? (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Plus optional components of bi-partisan meetings held by Democrats: inviting Republicans.

Democrats stole a House vote incorrectly announcing a Republican Amendment failed. (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

The outrageous attempts of House Democrats to hide what’s in a $1 trillion continuing resolution.

Luke Russert makes a rookie mistake.

State Trooper chaplains resign due to rules against praying in Jesus’ name. (Hat Tip: News Busters.)

An Islamist sect in England is radicalizing British Muslim youth.

Second Amendment rights excercised in the defense of life and property.

A former abortionist tells all.

Ben and Jerry opts against Breast Milk Ice Cream.

A Pennsylvania diner free to anyone who’ll run it.

A woman named Bacon wins a hog calling contest.

Skepticism thwarts robbery.

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Thoughts on the rampant VP speculation.

The scurrilous allegations of McCain fabricating the “cross in the sand story” begin to unravel (Hat Tip: Instapundit.) with one of America’s most decorated soldiers backing up McCain’s story.

Barack Obama flip flops on using Philadelphia’s corrupt street money system. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

Obama praises the idea of a Canadian-style single payer system. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

The DNC’s radical speakers line-up.

While Democrats pay lip service to welcoming pro-lifers, grassroots activists have a far more visceral opinion of Democrats for life and pro-life Democrats watch their words in Denver.

Democrats across America find themselves forced to embrace more drilling. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

A look at pork in the Transportation/HUD bill.

New York Democratic leader insists that shakedown threat of business leaders was a joke merely meant to entertain guests.

And Dallas schools head south with absurd new regulations on teachers. (Hat Tip: The Colossues of Rhodey.)

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The Democrats’ decision to go on vacation while Americans suffer from energy woes has opened a door for Republicans, and Rep. Mike Pence (R-IN) is taking the opportunity.

Obama breaks a promise to a poor African School. (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling.)

Obama veers from Clintononmics and not in a good way.

Infamous Porker Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK) given felony indictment, but will stay in Congress (as an Idahoan I have deja vu.) (Hat Tip: Club for Growth.)

John McCain waffles on raising taxes.  (Hat Tip: Club for Growth.)

Democrats on the Ethics Committee go after Senator Coburn for delivering babies for free. (Hat Tip: Red State.)

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 Obama’s Young Evangelical outreach prepares to heat up. 

Plus can we afford to be upset and not elect Obama, asks his wife.  (Hat Tip: Michelle Malkin.)

McCain fights back against the media machine that made him and then turned on him.  

Why are conservatives thrown under the bus right and left while former Mexican government official Juan Hernandez continues to ride the straight talk express?  

Earmarks cost American lives in Iraq.  

An abortion-free day in South Dakota.  

An ironic move by Planned Parenthood. 

Plus if Planned Parenthood wants to be like Lens Crafters, why can’t they pay taxes like them. (Hat Tip: Right Mind.)

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Should Phil Gramm stay or go?

A look at pork in the Commerce, Science, and Justice bill.

Hypocrisy at a global scale. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Plus will Democrats give a hearing to Kucinich’s loony impeachment resolution?

12 years later: The Ramsey family finally cleared.

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Obama’s numbers among White voters comparable to Kerry’s .

More witnesses come forward in support of Arianna Huffington’s claim that McCain told her he didn’t vote for Bush. Kind of awkward for a guy trying to unite the Republican party.

Carter’s right: Michigan voters disqualified themselves.

Democrats have a unity issue: continuing abortion.

A North Carolina Congressional Candidate tells the National Republican Congressional Campaign Committee that he doesn’t want their money. (Hat Tip: Save the GOP.)

Congressman Nick Lampson (D-TX) campaign against corrupt earmarks for lobbyists in 2006 and has shown himself a hypocrite in Congress.

How the Tax Code ruins contests and sweepstakes.

How students who don’t want to learn from families that don’t care hinder students who want to learn and how charter schools help. (Hat Tip: Right Mind.)

The second Amendment saves lives. Examples: here, here, here, and here.

Student Senator learns thuggery due to lack of punishment for vandalism and violation of the free speech rights of fellow students.

Pro-Life Catholics in Michigan hold a funeral for unborn children thrown away like trash into dumpsters, while a pro-life group exposes another abortionist carrying out the same sleezy practice.  (Hat Tip: Jill Stanek.)

Bill in Britain leaves open the possibility of Human-Animal hybird, The Humanzee.

A stunning defeat for pro-abortionist in Brazil.

Selective tolerance: ex-gays fear reprisals from the homosexual community that leads them to remain silent.

Young Australian Males running short of role models thanks to a culture of sensationalized sex abuse stories. (Hat Tip: Political Correctness Watch.)

Girls Sports pose a risk to girls health. (Hat Tip: Outside the Beltway.)

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The fall out from Obama’s former pastor’s latest tirade has created problems and despite Obama’s unbelievable denials and attempts to disassociate himself have left many on the left concerned (see here.) while Rush Limbaugh puts a pause on Operation Chaos. Can this be Hillary’s big break as recent polls in Indiana and Kentucky show her up. Can she come back and complete Obama’s collassal collapse with her new Moderate image?

While advocating for an earmarks moratorium, Hillary Clinton asks for $2.3 billion worth.

Republicans question ethanol subsidies and turning food into fuel.

The President can tell the truth about the enemy we battle, why can’t the rest of the government?

And a four year college degree? You might not need it. (Hat Tip: World on the Web.)

Guest Hatton Humphrey.

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We’re joined for Hatton Humphrey of the East Coast Conservative for most of the show.

It’s tax time and we talk about the Presidential Candidates Taxes a little bit.

Barack uses Dave Matthews band tickets to get people away from a Bill Clinton speech. Ah, bribing people with Concert tickets. It’s the new politics. (Hat Tip: Director Blue.)

Jeremiah Wright v. Black Evangelicals.

Another day, another whopper for Hillary Clinton. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

John McCain invents new classes of voters to go after.

Blogger right need more protection.

Bush Administration cuts red tape to finish the border fence.

Liberal talk radio guy caught in sex scandal. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

Washington State becomes the eighth state with earmarks transparency.

The Pig Book is out chronicling pork and waste in the federal government.

Florida’s House Speaker fights for taxpayer’s rights. (Hat Tip: Government Bytes.)

House Bill proposes big spending for population control groups.

Ted Turner makes a flawed case for population control based on Soylent Green.

China accuses the Dalai Lama of terrorism while they crack down on Buddhist monks.

An Ohio State representative wants to force parents to “volunteer” at school.

Neo-Darwinists show unprofessionalism as they try to crash Expelled and disrupt its conference calls. Also Academic freedom legislation that would allow teachers to discuss scientific objections to neo-Darwinianism is under attack with sometimes misleading information.

A teacher makes a fallacious anti-Christian statement and claims he was trying to teach his students how to thing.  (Hat Tip: Patterico.)

Student leave school at taxpayer expense for a gun control rally in Chicago. (Hat Tip: Publius Forum.)

Blaming the Internet for plagarism.

The problem with barring websites from requring people to list their sexual orientation.

A Muslim Speeders gets an exception to keep his driver’s license.

A reminder from Australia: Abortion is great for sex offenders.

Preparing High School kids “in the gap” for college from a biblical worldview.

North Korean and Algerian Christians persecuted for their faith.

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Thoughts on the 400th Episode of the Truth and Hope Report and how the show will continue to talk about Truth and Hope even as Conservatives face hard times.

We take a look at a Mary Landrieu earmark that came right before the recipient helped her raise $30,000. (Hat Tip: Green Eye Shade.)

Americans band together around Valentine’s Day to support America’s troops.

The anti-Semitic nature of Hugo Chavez’s regime in Venezuela.

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What do we make of John McCain’s Hispanic Outreach director having a record as a proponent of open borders who served in Vicente Fox’s cabinet with the goal of insuring Mexican immigrants don’t “go native” and maintain their first loyalty to Mexico. At the very least, you know a man by the company he keeps.

John McCain’s re-interpretation of his Ted Kennedyesque opposition to the Bush tax cuts.

Meanwhile, Bill Clinton insists a Hillary-McCain campaign would be a love-fest.  Which is probably true, which is why even John McCain’s mother knows he’s not getting support from the GOP base, because McCain’s got a record only a mother could love.

However, at the same time, Mitt Romney’s not great either. The price of his signature accomplishment (i.e. health care reform) as Governor is soaring out of control and will likely necessitate a tax incrase.

Illegal immigration impacts the Black Community, leading to anger against the Congressional Black Caucus. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Republicans propose some earmarks reforms, sorta.  (Hat Tip: Club for Growth.)

In contrast, the French really get tough on spending (Hat Tip: Instapundit.) which of course makes the French President the worst villain and the basis for James Bond’s next nemesis. (Hat Tip: Colossus of Rhodey.)

Also a former Fred Thompson staffer shows anti-Christian bigotry with his Chuck Norris boycott. (Hat Tip: Hot Air.)

Something you won’t hear from the mainstream media: Boys are in trouble. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

A ruling in California affirms freedom of association and a reminder of what happens when PC runs amok. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

A homeschooled teenager builds his own electric cars. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.) And Space tourism is coming. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

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Talking about Hillary’s questionable earmarks, including three that went to a minister that endorsed Hillary’s campaign.

Then Wisconsin where the rights of Catholic Hospitals are being ignored in regards to emergency contraception.

Finally, we take a look at politically liberal groups the NEA helps support. (Hat Tip: Right Mind.)

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The pro-life shows its unbeatable spirit on the 35th Anniversary of Roe v. Wade and provides hope for us all.

President Bush caves on earmarks.  (Hat Tip: Club for Growth.)

And one city official shows he understands the meaning of service.

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The result of a taxpayer earmark in 2001: a gas station and a pizza parlor named after Congressman Dave Hobson (R-OH). Hobson calls it his proudest accomplishment, I call it pork gone mad. (Hat Tip: Club for Growth and Captain’s Quarters.)

Also, will President Bush turn off the earmarks spigot? (Hat Tip: The Captain.)

Fox News decides to keep Ron Paul out out of a debate the Sunday before the New Hampshire primary despite strong New Hampshire poll numbers. Even non-Paul supporters are questioning how this can be justified. (Update: It all appears to be a big misunderstanding caused by media sloppiness.)

Also what Fred Thompson really said and how USA Today tried to twist it.

A case from Oklahoma which adds to the confusion on the status of unborn children. (Hat Tip: Jill Stanek.)

If a pro-abortionist attacks a pro-lifer and the media doesn’t report it, did it really happen?

That high school diploma doesn’t mean as much as it used to. (Hat Tip: Right Mind.)

An uncovered undercover police officer commits an action bordering on entrapment in a vice squad case. (Hat Tip: The Captain.)

Congressman Charlie Wilson (D-OH) is working hard to let the press know that it’s not his war portrayed in the movie.

7 great medical myths exposed.

Southwest Airlines does a good deed for our soldiers.

Christmas a dangerous time for North Korean Christians

Students seeking revival, will adults step up to the plate?

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We open up with a conversation about the Presidential Campaign including Mike Huckabee’s Merry Christmas ad, the “cross” (or two beams from a bookshelf) as well as Ron Paul’s interview with Glenn Beck and his statement raising the specter of Facism on Fox and Friends.

We then turn to the world of pork where Senator Ted Stevens (R-AK), under investigation for allegedly unethical earmark, adds $88 million more this omnibus bill including for a project under investigation. (Hat Tip: Club for Growth.)

We share Congressman John Campbell’s take on the passage of the omnibus bill. While the results were fairly abysmal (8,000 earmarks), thanks to Campbell’s effort to hold the line on the President’s veto, the House Republicans were able to force Democrats to get in line with the President’s budget requests. Savings to taxpayers: $150 billion.

Meanwhile, citizens of a California town say no to big government eminent domain abuse.

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If anyone had any doubts, when it comes to spending, the old boss is the new boss. Democrats have proposed a new omnibus spending bill that breaks their promise to cut earmarks in half (Hat Tip: Club for Growth.) by including 8,000 earmarks and backing off Speaker Pelosi’s stance when she was minority leader.

Then we take a look at the failed leadership of Arnold Schwarzeneggar. (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Meanwhile, labor unions in Wisconsin want to spend tax dollars to indoctrinate kids with Union PR. (Hat Tip: Labor Pains.)

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Democrats abandoned paygo requirements to patch the AMT, but the Wall Street Journal won’t let it go without first exposing it as a colossal scam. (Hat Tip: Captain’s Quarters.)

Meanwhile, Senate Republicans plan capitulation on the Democrats’ over-spending to bring home the bacon.

Barack Obama sounds more like he’s running for messiah than President.

Finally, common sense on Christmas from non-Christians in Great Britain.

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Back in July, Rep. Obey of Wisconsin offered H.Amdt 550, an amendment striking all earmarks from one of those bills, the Labor, HHS and Education funding.  The amendment failed on a 53-369 vote.  If Bill Sali had courage, he would tell you that when he had the chance to wipe out all of those “wasteful and outlandish programs,” he voted against it.

Yes, and if some better research were done, we would know that Congressman Obey (D-WI) actually voted against his own Amendment. If this was not a Democratic effort at fiscal responsibility, what was it?

It was an effort to prove that grandest sin (and the only real one in the eyes of Democrats.) “I think 90 percent of the earmarks attached by Members of both parties are perfectly legitimate….Members vote for the amendment that I intend to attach to every appropriation bill, which would call for a total elimination on earmarks. I want to see how many of you actually vote for it. I want to see how many of you do not give hypocrisy a bad name.”

Of course, Obey missed the key argument. The argument from most Republicans has not been “no earmarks” but transparency and that the earmarks be of a reasonable nature.

While MGR is right that voting for the Obey Amendment (if a non-serious Amendment like that passed) would have gotten rid of all wasteful earmarks, it would have gotten rid of the non-wasteful ones as well. Efforts in the House have focused on egregious areas of waste and the overall size of the budget. Sali has been consistent on opposing waste, but has never taken a “eliminate all earmarks” platform.

Secondly, it has to be said that the wasteful earmarks that remained in the bill were only one element of the bill’s issue. The bill was “bloated” according to Sali, which means it spent too much money and far exceeded the President’s request. 

Also Democratic Congressional  Walter Minnick issued his response to Sali, questioning his sincerity and demanding to know why other actions weren’t taken:

Or if he had voted to curtail pork barrel earmarks by all Congressmen when that bill was introduced at the beginning of this Congress–and for legislation requiring that any new Congressional spending be offset by spending cuts elsewhere in the budget.

Or if he had introduced a bill to require that the federal government balance its budget annually like you and I and the state of Idaho have to do every year.

Mr. Minnick could use some better researchers, because Bill Sali is an original co-sponsor of the Balanced Budget Amendment, H.J. Res 1. Please note in the past that most opposition to this bill has come from the Democratic Party and that no votes have been scheduled on this issue. Second point, regarding Pay as You Go, Bill Sali addressed this issue in depth in January:

“While ‘pay as you go’ is an appealing slogan, the reality is that the Democratic proposal passed today provides ample room for tax hikes and higher federal spending under the guise of fiscal responsibility,” U.S. Rep. Bill Sali said today. “This is really a case of legislative false advertising.

“No one wants greater spending restraint than me, which is why I am an original cosponsor of the Balanced Budget Amendment legislation being introduced in the new Congress. Yet when the Democratic leadership uses a term like ‘pay as you go’ to justify spending priorities not in line with our country’s needs, I have to oppose it.

“Moreover, spending hikes are all the easier because if they are added to a budget resolution’s baseline, they are exempted from ‘Paygo.’ Put another way, the Democratic ‘pay as you go’ plan gives a strong platform for bigger federal spending.

“We must not raise taxes, increase entitlement spending or reduce vital defense spending under the guise of ‘paying as you go.’ True fiscal discipline means making tough choices and putting Uncle Sam on a diet, which is what I’ll fight for in the next two years of my congressional term,” Sali concluded.

The attack of Bill Sali for alleged hypocrisy is a sign of weakness. Not only is the argument weak based on Sali’s record, but it shows the bankruptcy of the Democrat position.

It amounts to a tacit admission that he’s correct on the need for restraining federal spending. At this point, save for Congressman Jim Cooper (D-TN), no Democrat (including a lot of freshman who ran around pretending to be fiscal conservatives) in the House has consistently stood up for fiscal discipline in Congress. There’s no reason to believe that Walter Minnick or Larry Grant or whoever will be any different than the Big Spending Democrat majority. Rather they will raise your taxes in the name of fiscal discipline, but they have no plans to reduce the size and scope of government. They don’t believe government needs to go on diet, but rather that you and I need to get used to having a lot less money, so we can fund big government largess.

Tom Coburn is set to block any attempts at new deficit spending that are made using Unanimous Consent while President Bush is at least taking a hard line on pork in the defense bill.

Meanwhile two Republican Congresswomen resign from the House page board over a failure of supervision over the pages. There have been issues with shoplifting as well as sex acts in public places. On the bright side, they are learning something from members of Congress.

Another Congressman leaves the House, this time he didn’t cause a special election by resigning mid-term. Is it too much to ask for other Congressmen (ex: Dennis Haster, Marty Meehan) to serve out their term rather than cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars on special elections?

The truth about Congressional Pensions. They’re not as fat as we might think.

A Christian Convert from Islam has to fear for her life in Great Britain.

How Radical Islamist are trying to use Britain’s libel laws to silence free speech in America. (Hat Tip: The Corner.) 

How the SEIU formed a Union with only 30% of “workers” (stay at home day care owners) supporting it.

Gun Free zone sign in Omaha=“Unarmed Targets here.” to deranged killers.

Nicole Richie and John Madden undertake a charitable effort to help single mothers. (Hat Tip: Jill Stanek.)

A sign in New  York that shows a major misunderstanding of Jewish diet.  (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling.)

Tweety Bird and Daisy Duck are summoned by an Italian Court.

Gnut turns 1.

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Last week, Sali issued a press release to trumpet a pair of budget earmarks in a federal spending bill: $500,000 for a widening project on U.S. 95 and $500,000 for highway work from Banks to Lowman. In a textbook case of burying the news, the press release’s last paragraph contains some oh-by-the-way fine print: “Sali voted against the overall measure because it contains a series of other unnecessary, bloated spending proposals and would hike overall spending by $7.1 billion more than current funding and $5.3 billion more than the President has requested…”

So spokesman Wayne Hoffman draws the thankless job of explaining Sali’s vote. Members of Congress should advocate for earmarks in their state or congressional district, but they ultimately should vote on bills based on their merits. “We’ve got to put principle over politics,” said Hoffman, who asserts that it takes “an awful lot of courage” to vote against a spending bill containing local projects.

Courageous? I suspect Sali’s critics would suggest a different adjective.

Actually, Kevin, it’d be courageous of you to go ahead and use that adjective as you’re clearly a Sali critic. However, I digress.

Is Sali hypocritical on federal spending? First, we need to understand the nature of an earmark. An earmark itself doesn’t directly increase federal spending. It directs it. So, it instructs the Department of Transportation to use highway funds for Highway 95. If all members of Congress kept their requests at $1 million, this wouldn’t be a problem.

However, there are two problems we run into. First, is that a lot of folks put in earmarks for things that are clearly not in the national interest. Maintaining federal highways are, setting up visitor centers hither and yon are not. In some cases, the earmarks add up to Billions of Dollars, limiting the Department’s ability to make good judgments on what needs to be done through the competitive bid process.

The second problem is that the earmarks lead to increased spending, and it’s not just to cover the earmarks. This year’s Transportation Budget include $2.2 billion in Earmarks, but is $5.3 billion over the President’s request. Appropriators increase general spending levels to generally grow the size of government.

Then they use the earmarks members have received as leverage. Congressman John Campbell (R-CA) posted a speech by Appropriations Commitee Chairman David Obey (D-WI.) on his blog a few weeks back that illustrated this point:

Mr. OBEY. I know there are some people in this Chamber who believe that if this bill goes down, if the President vetoes it, that somehow a way will be found to compromise and still protect these earmarks.

I want to make it clear, I have been told many times by the White House that they have no intention whatsoever of compromising on this or any other bill that exceeds the President’s wishes. If that is the case and if this bill goes down, then the only alternative left to us will be to bring in a bill at the President’s level of funding.

I would ask every serious-minded person in this body, if they really think there is a chance of a snowball in Hades that Members’ earmarks on either side of the aisle will survive if we wind up at the President’s level of funding, I think you understand that is not likely. And so I think the fate of all of the work that has gone into this bill, the fate of every project that Members have been concerned about is in your hands.

I yield back the balance of my time.

Thus, it is hoped that Congressmen, like Bill Sali, who may have $1 million in earmarks in a bill will vote for it despite the fact it will run up billions in unnecessary deficit spending. Sali makes the right and hard choice time and time again to vote for the best interests of the whole country and Idaho’s children, who will be left to shoulder this.

This is not something that’s easy, particularly if the earmarks die. But, what’s led to high deficits is that faced with similar situations, members of Congress have always chosen their parochial interests over the country’s.

Now, some might ask if it would be better for Sali to simply forswear earmarks altogether. There are 17 Republicans who have. Sali has not, for understandable reasons. If, for example on highway bills, Congressman Sali doesn’t request funds for necessary improvements on Idaho highways, the chance of the highways in his district getting the necessary funding through a needs based competitive process are much slimmer thanks to members of Congress who’ve gotten earmarks to get their road improvements guaranteed This would amount to unilateral disarmament.

As long as Sali keeps his earmark requests reasonable, opposes wasteful earmarks, votes against bloated appropriations bills rather than support them to save his earmarks, then I think he’s doing the best he can given the circumstances presented him.

Sen. Ted Stevens (Republican Pork King-Alaska) is back with a sequel to the bridge to nowhere, the ferry to nowhere. Congress overall has packed $20 billion in pork into Appropriations Bills. (Hat Tip: Reformed Chicks Babbling.) Speaking of pork, 15 Republicans went back on their word and voted to override President Bush’s veto.

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While Idaho’s 2 house members offered a stark contrast (94% for Bill Sali and 4% for Mike Simpson), the Senators were closer together and much nearer the median. Mike Crapo scored a 67%, Larry Craig scored 50%, the Republican average was 59%.

Crapo cast some lonely votes. He was one of only 11 members of the Senate to vote against funding a visitor’s center in Louisiana before the needs of people displaced by Hurricane Katrina were met. Bizarrely, he did vote against an Amendment that would deny funding for adding sand to the beaches of San Diego until Sacramento are protected from the threat of floods.

However, overall Crapo is one of the more fiscally disciplined members of the Senate (ranked in the top 25), with some encouragement, hopefully he’ll do better. As for Senator Craig, hopefully his replacement will be more willing to take on wasteful spending.

My title is harsh, demagogic, and unkind. It fits perfectly with the conversation that’s been started by National Democrats over SCHIP, and I do have an actual reason for this audacious title.

As has been reported by the Washington Times and other outlets, an anti-pork Amendment was actually passed by the US Senate. The Amendment (passed on Roll Call vote 377) eliminated $1 million that was supposed to fund a Woodstock museum in New York State. This greatly disappointed backers of the earmark who gave $29,000 in campaign contributions to New York Senators Clinton and Schumer and still failed to get the million dollar return on their money

The Amendment, authored by Senators Coburn (R-OK) and Kyl (R-AZ), was supported by 47 Republicans and 5 Democrats. What has not been covered anywhere is what the money goes to. The Coburn Amendment proposed taking this million dollars and redirecting it to “additional care for pregnant women, mothers, and infants” While their House colleagues pontificated and demogoged, given the choice between supporting health care for women, mothers, and infants, or preserving parochial pork that celebrated the self-indulgence of the ‘60s, the vast majority of Democrats chose the pork.

This is an accurate description of the Democrats’ vote unlike the constant harping we’ve heard on the SCHIP veto from liberals, who pretend the SCHIP vote was against health care for America’s poorest children. The truth of the matter is that had Democrats reauthorized the program as it was, America’s poorest children would be covered and Republicans would have supported the bill.

The bill vetoed by President Bush is about extending coverage to children whose parents can afford health insurance, as well as adults into their 20s. In addition, while the program’s initial outlays will be covered by a cigarette tax increase, this revenue will be insufficient to continue to pay for the program, unless there are 22 million new smokers in the next ten years, so either higher taxes or more deficit spending will be required to make up the shortfall.

Instead of having a debate about the Democrats’ desire to expand the program, we’ve had an utterly dishonest spectacle, based on hurling personal attacks at principled Republicans and the President. We’ve had the bogus allegation that this is about serving the best interest of big tobacco, when cigarette taxes are not paid by the tobacco companies, but by smokers (who are far more likely to be poor than the general population.)

The truth of the matter is that the health care industry, particularly Big HMOs—which administer SCHIP in the states and would reap the benefits of millions of new enrollees—spent $227 million on lobbying the first half of this year, much of it for this legislation. And why not? If you can reap billions in benefits from the government, a $227 million investment is not a bad deal.

It’s time to tell the truth about the charlatans in Washington who preach to us about the need to take care of children, while voting to put the needs of children and their mothers second to the needs of big campaign contributions.

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Members of Congress, particularly the Democrats, weren’t too keen on trimming them. Still, there were some standouts, like Congressman Bill Sali (R-ID), who earned a 94 percent rating, voting for 47 of the 50 Amendments. A solid margin, and well within tolerance levels considering that it’s a given some folks will disagree over what’s legitimate and what’s pork. Congressman Sali is clearly on the taxpayer’s side and far above the average 43% score for Repubicans. (It should be noted that 105 members of Congress scored a zero.)

Still, there’s the matter of my Congressman, Mike Simpson. My pal, Cat complained about her Congressman, Virgil Goode (R-VA) only scoring an 11% on the scorecard. Well, Cat, Virgil’s a fiscal prince compared to my Congressman, Mike Simpson (R-ID), who managed to score a 4% on the scorecard.

Four percent, how bad is that? Don Young (R-AK), Alaska’s Pork King, scored six percent. To be fair, he supported the same number of Amendments as Simpson, but only voted on 31 issues. Still, when you’re getting into Don Young territory, it’s pretty bad.

Congressman Simpson will remain unphased by this blog post. He’s pretty well untouchable. There are some good reasons for this. He’s a member of the Appropriations Committee. He votes right on the war and takes care of our soldiers, he’s usually right on social issues. He’s got a 100% rating from National Right to Life, and has voted with the Family Research Council between 80-92% of the time each year. He’s got an 88% American Conservative Union Rating.

But yet, his fiscal record is damning. It points to a man who spends freely in the name of helping the district. He’s built himself an impregnable fortress in Idaho’s 2nd district. Since his initial primary victory, he’s been unopposed in each of the last four elections. He couldn’t get a serious challenger even if the Democrats could, in theory present one. Too entrenched.

But yet, as I study this pork issue, I see how wrong he is. Congressman Simpson not only brings home the bacon to Idaho, he helps perpetuate the bad and wasteful spending of other Congressmen. Congressman Simpson couldn’t even muster the common sense to oppose a $2 million no-bid earmark given to Sherwin Williams to develop a defense product the Pentagon didn’t ask for and that taxpayers won’t own any right in.

And why should he show common sense and restraint? Why should he care about the future of our nation. By the time this nonsense has run its course, Congressman Simpson will be retired, splitting his time between Idaho and exotic locales enjoying a Congressional pension, while my generation is left to sort out this miss. That’s right, Congressman Simpson and his colleagues will run up the credit card, my generation and our children will be left to pay the bill.

Now, some Democrats may pounce on this. But if you think I’m suggesting voting for Democrats, think again. While Congressman Simpson has a four percent rating on these Amendments, your average Democrat has a rating of two percent. Despite his faults, Simpson is, statistically speaking, twice as fiscally conservative as your average Democrat. Thus the utterly depressing situation you’re left in when a district has a Pork Barrell Republican Congressman. There’s no good alternatives, just more spending and more taxes.

Doubtless some Republicans will feel me disloyal to the party in making these comments. Well, Congressman Simpson has been disloyal to me as his constituent in wasting my taxpayer dollars and refusing to reign in spending. Congressman Simpson is part of a bi-partisan group leading our country to fiscal catastrophe, taking my hard-earned money and spending it on nonsense. This is an issue that’s too important to shut up about and play nice.

I would hope that at some point a true Conservative would challenge Simpson in the primary. Maybe they wouldn’t win, but a significant showing might make Congressman Simpson more circumspect (Maybe he’d support 20% of anti-pork Amendments rather than 4%), or if it didn’t, it could build up grassroots support for a true Conservative to replace Simpson in two or three terms.

Something needs to be done. The cost of doing nothing is far too high.

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“I thought about it. You’re giving way prizes all day and making everybody happy. I really can’t complain. Honestly, my whole take on it has turned around now. Now I think you couldn’t do better. Here’s a car, here’s some money. And it’s not even your money. You’re giving away money and getting credit for it. I feel like a congressman. I’m like the junior Ted Stevens.”

It’s Drew Carey’s inner libertarian coming out and I love it, particularly when it comes to economics. (Hat Tip: Government Bytes)

After reporters started asking questions, the Congressman disclosed his requests this year for about $400 million worth of federal funding for no fewer than 65 earmarks. They include such urgent national wartime priorities as an $8 million request for the marketing of wild American shrimp and $2.3 million to fund shrimp-fishing research.

When we called Mr. Paul’s office for an explanation, his spokesperson offered up something worthy of pork legends Tom DeLay or Senator Robert C. Byrd: “Reducing earmarks does not reduce government spending, and it does not prohibit spending upon those things that are earmarked,” the spokesman said. “What people who push earmark reform are doing is they are particularly misleading the public — and I have to presume it’s not by accident.”

What they’re trying to do is expose the process of pork spending to the light of day. But you got to appreciate Dr. Paul being a purist to accuse the reformers of dishonesty while bringing the money home for his district the Shrimp industry with taxpayer dollars.

Apparently, the case for it all is like what Bubba said in forest Gump, “Anyway, like I was sayin’, shrimp is the fruit of the sea. You can barbecue it, boil it, broil it, bake it, sautee it. Dey’s uh, shrimp-kabobs, shrimp creole, shrimp gumbo. Pan fried, deep fried, stir-fried. There’s pineapple shrimp, lemon shrimp, coconut shrimp, pepper shrimp, shrimp soup, shrimp stew, shrimp salad, shrimp and potatoes, shrimp burger, shrimp sandwich. That- that’s about it.”

That ought to be a Ron Paul campaign video and they should juxtapose it with the “not yours to give” story that he posted on his website in which a Congressman Davy Crockett receives a tongue lashing from a constituent:

“The congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from necessity of giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution.”

Apparently, there’s funding for shrimp marketing authorized somewhere in there, or else the money the Congressman requested was “not his to give.”

Here’s a snippet of his major criticism:

Rangel has come under fire both for attempting to name a government-supported project after himself while he’s still in office – considered unseemly by many lawmakers – and for the huge fund-raising drive that is not subject to financial-disclosure or conflict-of-interest rules.

He’s come under fire? By whom? Where is the proof that he’s putting his own name on this center and that it isn’t something that the Harlem community is doing for a representative that they absolutely love? This is just a bunch of emotional fluff that no one like Adam will take the time to prove or look into.

Actually the answer comes two paragraphs down:

“I just don’t think it’s right for a member to donate taxpayer money to something with their name on it,” said Rep. John Campbell (R-Calif.).

“In general, we do not name things after ourselves while we are great and powerful,” Rep. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) said.

So there’s the “Coming under fire” that was mentioned above. Binky Boy asks:

Binky Boy: Campbell’s quote could be about George W. Bush for all the context it is given. Kirk’s quote could have been said 10 years ago. Again, no sourcing, no fact, no issue.

Actually, the sources are Campbell and Kirk. Then Binky Boy engages some incredibly naive wishful thinking or utter partisan blindness (take your pick). This is a news article, not a research paper written with Chicago-style notations.

Anyway, Binky Boy calls over to Congressman Charlie Rangel’s office:

According to Emile Milne in Congressman Rangel’s office, the claims that Congressman Rangel named the center after himself are absolutely false. As well, the earmark was requested by the College that the center is part of. So if Adam has a problem with taxpayer dollars going to an educational center that is praising Congressman Rangel for his work in the community, then maybe he should step up and give all the facts.

Wow, and if we found out that Larry Craig sponsored an earmark for The Larry Craig School of Agriculture at the University of Idaho, I bet he’d just believe someone from Senator Craig’s office that it was meant to honor Senator Craig and he had nothing to do with it. First Rangel did sponsor the earmark for a center named after himself. If you don’t believe the New York Post, check the National Journal. Whoever’s idea it was, they wanted the Congressman’s support and they wanted the schools built to get funding: federal funding and funding from corporations who’d want to get the favor of the House Ways and Means Committee Chairman:

There is no legal requirement that Rangel disclose names of donors to the center, but his office provided an internal fund-raising document to The Post.

It lists $10 million from insurance firm AIG, $500,000 from the Verizon Foundation and $1 million from Eugene Isenberg, CEO of energy firm Nabors Industries.

Binky Boy: Ok, so Rangel gave them the information they requested, even though he didn’t have to, and it’s all on the up and up?

You think $10 million from AIG to fund a school named after the Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee was given out of the goodness of AIG’s heart? $500,000 from Verizon. This is all on the up and up? Were this the Republican Chairman, I doubt Binky Boy would be so generous. Sometimes partisanship gets in the way of people’s common sense.

If this is only about the Center and its stated goals, it would have been built last year when Rangel had no power outside his talent for giving long-winded speeches.

UPDATE

New York Post, 1, Binky Boy, 0

From Congressman John Campbell’s (R-CA) blog, he clearly wasn’t talking about George W. Bush in the quote:

That’s right, the distinguished Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee wants $2 million of your money to establish the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service. The funding this earmark would go to would include, among other things, a library to house the Congressman’s future papers, a “well-furnished office” for him, and an endowment.

As Brit Hume put it, “he wants us to pay for a building named in his honor.”

The earmark violates the spirit, if not actual House Rules (Rule XXI, Clause 6) which says, “It shall not be in order to consider a bill, joint resolution, amendment, or conference report that provides for the designation or re-designation of a public work in honor of an individual then serving as a Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, or Senator.”

I asked the Chairman if it would be proper for me to request an earmark for the “John Campbell School of Fiscal Responsibility.” He said no “because i don’t think you have been around enough to inspire a building like this in a school.”

That’s OK, I don’t really want one. I just don’t believe that we should use the power and authority we have while in office to use taxpayer funds to create monuments to ourselves.

Campbell also has a video in which he explains that this center will include an office for Congressman Rangel (though Rangel says it will be after he retires.) Also, the center is named after Rangel by the University because under house rules Rangel can’t name it himself. The university created the school with Rangel’s name to get around the legal requirements.

32) Prohibit FEMA funding for dance classes. (up to 4 times)

33) Prohibit FEMA funding for puppet shows. (up to 4 times)

34) Prohibit FEMA funding for bingo games. (up to 4 times)

35) Prohibit FEMA funding for yoga classes. (up to 4 times)

36) Prohibit FEMA funding for art classes. (up to 4 times)

37) Prohibit FEMA funding for theater workshops. (up to 4 times)

38) Prohibit DHS funding for the office of Multimedia

39) Prohibit DHS funding for purchasing Louis Vuitton handbags

40) Prohibit DHS funding to pay parking tickets

41) Prohibit DHS funding to purchase jewelry

42) Prohibit DHS funding to pay bail bonds

43) Prohibit DHS funding to send more than 50 employees to conferences outside the U.S.

44) Prohibit DHS funding to pay for adult entertainment

Yes, folks there are sane poeple in Washington.

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“Business as Usual,” that’s how 63% of Americans describe the Democrat Congress. (hat tip: Captain’s Quarters). Might it have something to do with outrageous Democrat earmarks? Their “all talk, no action” policy doesn’t play too well with the American people.

Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey says Congress doesn’t have time to find all the earmarks. Hundreds of citizens are offering to help sift through the Earmarks via Porkbusters (be sure to add your name) (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

House Minority Leader John Boehner is saying they’ll go to war over earmarks, but I’m with Lorie Byrd. I’ll believe it when I see it.

Meanwhile Moderate Muslims show up as the member of the radical group CAIR plummets. I just wish they would do more and be active in opposing the terrorist elements of their sect.

Finally, President Bush goes to Congress to demand the passage of the amnesty bill, saying the current situation is unacceptable. If it’s unacceptable, why doesn’t he enforce the law? Instead he’s holding the security of our country hostage for a guest worker program to benefit corporate America.

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With the Dems, it’s all hat, no cattle on spending reform as this video illustrates. All but one of the House Committee Chairmen in the new Congress was in Congress prior to 1994 and they’re picking up right where they left off with pork and big spending.

Hat Tip: Club for Growth

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