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To: i-node who wrote (464332)	3/16/2009 10:36:47 PM
From: steve harris	Respond to of 1583406

Know what you mean. Last year, I was posting the dems were paying off their buddies at Goldman Sachs, few would listen. Now it turns out AIG was funneling the majority of their bailout money to Goldman Sachs and foreign banks. But 0.1% spent on AIG bonuses takes the headlines... Message 25201588

To: i-node who wrote (464332)	3/17/2009 12:01:38 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583406

What a dumb twat! And I mean twat in the fullest sense of the word. Lindsey Graham Contradicts Himself On Earmarks In Under A Minute Moments after declaring that the country needs earmark reform, Sen. Lindsey Graham offered an arduous defense of his own, well, earmarking. Appearing on NBC's Meet the Press, the South Carolina Republican was asked about his good friend John McCain's pork-focused critique of the omnibus spending bill that was held up in the Senate on Friday. "We do need earmark reform," said Graham. "I wish [the president] would veto the bill, we'd get back together and come up with the earmark reform process." Seconds later, however, Graham was reminded that he himself had inserted 37 earmarks in the legislation, including $950,000 for "a convention center in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina." After defending the transparency and necessity of such an expenditure, Graham finally finished the 180, saying of the Myrtle Beach funding: "I voted to take all earmarks out, but I will come back in the new process and put that back in." In other words: earmarking is terrible, but I should have the ability to earmark. To be fair, Graham -- like every other member of Congress who inserted pork into the omnibus -- had to do it publicly. Moreover, the number of earmarks has dropped significantly since Congress passed legislative changes to the process after Democrats regained control. "Senator McCain does not object to members of Congress designating money to be spent in their state," Graham explained, "as long as it has a federal purpose, is transparent and its easy to understand what the money is going to be spent for." huffingtonpost.com