Anti-earmark Tea Party Caucus takes $1 billion in earmarks

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Anti-earmark Tea Party Caucus takes $1 billion in earmarks

Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget.

According to a Hotline review of records compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the 52 members of the caucus, which pledges to cut spending and reduce the size of government, requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150 during Fiscal Year 2010, the last year for which records are available.

"It's disturbing to see the Tea Party Caucus requested that much in earmarks. This is their time to put up or shut up, to be blunt," said David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste. "There's going to be a huge backlash if they continue to request earmarks."

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thats funny

 

[cawacko]

Guess there aren't very strict rules to get into that caucus.

 

[SmarterthanYou]

damn idiots. no principles whatsoever.

 

[NOVA]

Bullshit....earmarks for 2010 were close to 4 Billion Dollars and you're gonna have a shit fit because the Republicans got 1 billion?
What are they supposed to do ...let the Democrats take everything to buy votes and get reelected? While they stand on principle and starve their constituents....screw you.
That money came from Republican taxpayers too.....

 

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Bullshit....earmarks for 2010 were close to 4 Billion Dollars and you're gonna have a shit fit because the Republicans got 1 billion?
What are they supposed to do ...let the Democrats take everything to buy votes and get reelected? While they stand on principle and starve their constituents....screw you.
That money came from Republican taxpayers too.....

um....they are ones saying...no earmarks...and if it costs them an election, then obviously the people don't want it

 

[NOVA]

um....they are ones saying...no earmarks...and if it costs them an election, then obviously the people don't want it

Until there are no earmarks for anyone, they would be fools to let the democrats take billions buy more elections and enjoy more earmarks....

Screw you....we'll take our chances with reasonable voters that have common sense and use their brains (unlike you).

 

[Bonestorm]

Bullshit....earmarks for 2010 were close to 4 Billion Dollars and you're gonna have a shit fit because the Republicans got 1 billion?
What are they supposed to do ...let the Democrats take everything to buy votes and get reelected? While they stand on principle and starve their constituents....screw you.
That money came from Republican taxpayers too.....

The Republicans were in the minority but they had a few more members than 52. These 52 "Tea Party Caucus" members got over a billion, the Republicans as a whole got quite a bit more.

 

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Until there are no earmarks for anyone, they would be fools to let the democrats take billions buy more elections and enjoy more earmarks....

Screw you....we'll take our chances with reasonable voters that have common sense and use their brains (unlike you).

huh

 

[Schadenfreude]

Until there are no earmarks for anyone, they would be fools to let the democrats take billions buy more elections and enjoy more earmarks....

Screw you....we'll take our chances with reasonable voters that have common sense and use their brains (unlike you).

reasonable voter is an oxymoron - just as a question, if other congress critters do wrong or go back on their promises is that ok too

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

If earmarks help defeat the Republicans, they are a force for good. Anything to defeat conservatism is acceptable.

 

[Schadenfreude]

If earmarks help defeat the Republicans, they are a force for good. Anything to defeat conservatism is acceptable.

A N Y T H I N G?

 

[WinterBorn]

Until there are no earmarks for anyone, they would be fools to let the democrats take billions buy more elections and enjoy more earmarks....

Screw you....we'll take our chances with reasonable voters that have common sense and use their brains (unlike you).

This is bullshit. So these guys get a pass because they are not letting the Dems use earmarks to buy all the votes. So Dems doing the same thing is ok?

Good to see we have a potential for such progress.

 

[Minister of Truth]

A N Y T H I N G?

He's just trolling. Watermark has adopted a "by any means" persona for the purposes of being satirical, at least in his own little world...

 

[PostmodernProphet]

considering the folks who made the commitment were the ones elected in November who will get sworn in next January I'll be paying more attention to the earmarks of 2011.........

 

[Onceler]

considering the folks who made the commitment were the ones elected in November who will get sworn in next January I'll be paying more attention to the earmarks of 2011.........

Of course you will...

 

[Damocles]

I wonder if it is a difference in how each are defining the term earmark?

 

[Bonestorm]

I wonder if it is a difference in how each are defining the term earmark?

Of course you do.

 

[Damocles]

Of course you do.

Thanks for the answer. Dink.

I actually do. Are these people requesting funds they do not see as earmarks? I honestly don't know.

 

[PostmodernProphet]

Of course you will...

more than you will liberal....you'll be holding your hand out for budget increases and complaining that the government isn't giving you more, more, more.....

 

[Onceler]

more than you will liberal....you'll be holding your hand out for budget increases and complaining that the government isn't giving you more, more, more.....

Me? No. I'm always calling for budget cuts & tax decreases.

You? You're always apologizing for conservatives. That won't change.