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**xyupi** · 11-10-2010, 02:52 AM

"For a nonbinding resolution, Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal that Republican senators give up earmarks in the 112th Congress is generating a lot of controversy. Politico reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been busy expressing his concerns with the idea in public and lobbying quietly to defeat the measure behind closed doors, risking open conflict with the Tea Party in the process.

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), for one, is siding with McConnell. “They should quit worrying about this phony issue,” he told Politico.“The ban doesn’t accomplish anything.”

But if the issue is so insignificant, others on the right are wondering why McConnell is risking a fight over it so soon after the election of six new Republican senators, many of whom ran on an explicitly anti-earmark platform."

http://washingtonindependent.com/103...-vote-heats-up

"This debate doesn't save any money, which is why it's kind of exasperating to some of us who really want to cut spending and get the federal government's discretionary accounts under control,” McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44888.html

Exactly how McConnell can see earmarks as anything less than THE Reason the government can so easily waste money!? Earmarks allow people to add things on to bill, that are not their own, which can be completely unrelated to the bill itself. It forces people to have to vote for things they don't want, in order to get what they do. A bill about a real political issue should not be held back because it's tied to a thousand dollar stadium, for one town.

Mitch McConnell awkwardly attempts to explain his pro earmark stance.

Everyone from staunch Conservatives like Marco Rubio, to moderates like John McCain are against earmarks, the only reason McConnell is against banning them, is because he takes so much advantage of them! The Tea Party would like them gone, and I couldn't agree more with them.

"The practice of earmarks in Congress is really one that lends itself to sort of corruption. It allows for all sorts of dealmaking like what they did with Obamacare to get it passed. But more insidious about it is the fact that these projects are funded without any public oversight, without the attention they deserve." - Marco Rubio

It's time to remove earmarks from the forever, fighting against this fact is going to show the Republican party who really won the Mid terms. I am hoping this will be a wake up call to people like McConnell that the American people are tired of being ignored!

11-10-2010, 02:52 AM	#1
xyupi Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 541 Senior Member	Mitch McConnell is screwing things up for the Republicans. "For a nonbinding resolution, Sen. Jim DeMint’s (R-S.C.) proposal that Republican senators give up earmarks in the 112th Congress is generating a lot of controversy. Politico reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has been busy expressing his concerns with the idea in public and lobbying quietly to defeat the measure behind closed doors, risking open conflict with the Tea Party in the process. Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), for one, is siding with McConnell. “They should quit worrying about this phony issue,” he told Politico.“The ban doesn’t accomplish anything.” But if the issue is so insignificant, others on the right are wondering why McConnell is risking a fight over it so soon after the election of six new Republican senators, many of whom ran on an explicitly anti-earmark platform." http://washingtonindependent.com/103...-vote-heats-up "This debate doesn't save any money, which is why it's kind of exasperating to some of us who really want to cut spending and get the federal government's discretionary accounts under control,” McConnell said on CBS’ “Face the Nation” http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1110/44888.html Exactly how McConnell can see earmarks as anything less than THE Reason the government can so easily waste money!? Earmarks allow people to add things on to bill, that are not their own, which can be completely unrelated to the bill itself. It forces people to have to vote for things they don't want, in order to get what they do. A bill about a real political issue should not be held back because it's tied to a thousand dollar stadium, for one town. Mitch McConnell awkwardly attempts to explain his pro earmark stance. Everyone from staunch Conservatives like Marco Rubio, to moderates like John McCain are against earmarks, the only reason McConnell is against banning them, is because he takes so much advantage of them! The Tea Party would like them gone, and I couldn't agree more with them. "The practice of earmarks in Congress is really one that lends itself to sort of corruption. It allows for all sorts of dealmaking like what they did with Obamacare to get it passed. But more insidious about it is the fact that these projects are funded without any public oversight, without the attention they deserve." - Marco Rubio It's time to remove earmarks from the forever, fighting against this fact is going to show the Republican party who really won the Mid terms. I am hoping this will be a wake up call to people like McConnell that the American people are tired of being ignored!
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