Democrats And Earmarks

Didn't they campaign in 2006 about doing away with the "culture of corruption" and "doing away with earmarks"? I guess they like to be revisionist historians. How about instead of bullshitting the American public, you actually KEEP a campaign promise, just to shake things up a bit?

Nah, they still are spending money like it isn't theirs. Oh wait, it ISN'T theirs! Representative Jeff Flake said it best:

`It baffles me how people can complain bitterly about Halliburton and no-bid contracts and then lard up a bill with literally thousands of earmarks to companies when that's all they are -- no-bid contracts,'' says Representative Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, referring to criticism of the Bush administration's sole-source contract with the Houston-based company during the Iraq war. Flake is noted for not requesting earmarks and publicizing those of his colleagues.

Exactly right. How CAN you complain about one bit of spending, while not saying a word about your own? Here's one earmark that disturbs me:

Some companies stand to gain from Pelosi's earmarks. The California Democrat has won funding for six companies in a 2008 defense funding measure. One is a $4 million request to develop a ``novel viral biowarfare agent'' for Prosetta Corp., based in her San Francisco district. Tom Higgins, the company's chief executive officer, says he talked to the Speaker's staff directly rather than hiring a lobbyist and hasn't given money to her campaign. ``We're just a little company,'' he says.

Don't you think a "viral biowarfare agent" should be developed by the military? There are private companies developing "biowarfare agents"??? Who's to say what kind of security they have in this company? Who's to say they don't' have foreign spies in their company payroll looking into how to use this against the US?

Earmarks like this are very dangerous and Nancy Pelosi should be condemned for wanting to fund it.

Travis
travis@rightwinglunatic.com