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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: ManyMoose who wrote (31842)	6/24/2008 10:48:23 PM
From: puborectalis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224759

McCain........ "I think it's very important that we make the Bush tax cuts permanent. I voted to make them permanent twice already." McCain has certainly made a crusade out of attacking "earmarks," and watchdog groups don't know of any instance in which McCain has asked for an earmark. But here's what rivals point to: In a 1992 letter to the EPA, McCain asked for $5 million for a wastewater project in Nogales AZ, either out of existing funds or "earmark the amount from an appropriate account." But McCain's letter was a request, not a legislative earmark carrying the force of law. In 2006, McCain proposed $10 million to create a center honoring former Chief Justice William Rehnquist. But was that pork-barrel spending? Answer: It depends. It wasn't slipped into some bill in the dead-of-the-night, but was a separate piece of legislation.