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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction

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To: Sully- who wrote (69410)2/10/2009 9:06:09 AM
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Look, It's Not an Earmark as Long as You Don't Call It One

The Campaign Spot
Jim Geraghty Reporting

A reader, watching Obama's town hall meeting, asks,

<<< "What happened to Obama's legendarily succinct answers? A question about green technology has morphed into discussion of electronic health records." >>>


I also notice that Obama is declaring, "This bill does not have a single earmark in it."

He needs to read the bill more closely.
What does he call the $200 billion for "one or more near zero emission powerplants” when the only one that had been on the Department of Energy's drawing board was FutureGen, a favorite of the Illinois congressional delegation and now-departed Gov. Rod Blagojevich? The one project that had been scuttled, and that the Obama administration had said it opposed, because of prohibitively enormous costs?

I liked this succinct assessment from Ed Morrissey: "The problem in this bill isn’t in Elkhart, and neither is the solution."

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