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Republicans want stimulus pork dollars too

By Steve McGough / February 9, 2010 / Comments Off on Republicans want stimulus pork dollars too

GOP politicians have been quietly writing letters to government agencies encouraging them to fund special pork projects in their home districts or states. At the same time they join calls for ending pork barrel earmarks claiming they are a waste of tax dollars. This is nothing new.

Symptom of the Disease: $300 million in earmarks benefit political elite

By Steve McGough / February 7, 2012 /

Wynton Hall over at Big Government points to a Washington Post article posted online yesterday detailing earmark projects that benefited property and business owners who happened to be congress-critters who either sponsored or voted for the earmark.

It’s Not Pork If You Can See It -Update Video

By Jim Vicevich / March 4, 2009 /

Yup … that’s what far left liberal Democrat Debbie Schultz tells Neil Cavuto in this evening’s Cavuto moment. But the best part comes at the end when Schultz says Obama will cut the budget deficit in half in four years. Cavuto says no way and makes Schultz the second best best of the day. Hint…

Failure!

By Jim Vicevich / February 26, 2009 /

No need to comment. Neil Cavuto on Fox says it all. Enjoy or not.

You say tomato … I say …

By Jim Vicevich / February 26, 2009 /

My mom used to sing that song … now the Democrats are singing it too. Tonight’s Neil Cavuto moment comes with West Virginia Democrat Congressman Nick Rahall.

Can Obama curb Congressional pork projects?

By Steve McGough / January 7, 2009 / Comments Off on Can Obama curb Congressional pork projects?

I’m really not so sure. Many are of the thought the horse has left the barn, Elvis the building, and the pig is rolling in the slop. During yesterday’s media show, Obama promised to ban, that’s right ban, all earmarks. My question right off the bat is what is his definition of an earmark? ……

Shades of J. Wellington Wimpy

By Dave in EH / March 9, 2009 /

Perhaps I am showing my age… or just the spoiled fodder of a mis-spent youth, but Obama’s budget director Peter Orszag is starting to remind me of Wimpy, the hamburger-mooching ne’er-do-well out of the old Popeye cartoons, he who would “surely pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.”  With Orszag, the promise is “We will…