Bailout Bill Has More Pork Than a Dim Sum Restaurant
Well, we now know that Barack Obama really isn't a secret Muslim. No adherent of the Koran could vote for a bailout package that contained more pork than a Hormel rendering plant.
Yet, that's exactly what Obama — and John McCain, along with leadership in both Houses of Congress — did last week.
Of course, Obama wasn't the one who loaded up the bill with earmarks. That task fell to statesmen such as…
* Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-OR), who seeks a tax break for arrow manufacturers in his home district.
* Rep. Don Young (R-AK), who as House porker-in-chief, seeks a tax break for the perpetrators in the Exxon Valdez oil spill.
* An anonymous sponsor, who seeks tax write-offs for the owners of NASCAR racetracks.
Thankfully, these provisions and many others made it in to the bill, which is why our financial institutions survived the weekend and why we aren't all speaking Mandarin, Russian or Arabic right now.
Time to celebrate with some ribs and bacon.
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How do you judge a gambler? Whether he wins or whether he loses. At this point it's not about policy, it's about winning, and he's playing it for all he's worth.
Headline: John McCain uses Morning Joe to go on the record to support obscenity.
Joe Scarborough described the financial bailout bill as "insanity".
John McCain responded "It's insanity and it's an obscenity."
But McCain voted for this "obscenity" which included megabucks (gigabucks?) in unrelated tax give-aways … exactly the pork barrel politics he has based his reputation and campaign upon opposing … would the same logic hold in a McCain presidency when it comes to reaching for the veto pen?
What is wrong with this picture … this was the chance to see his values in action … his explanation: "that is the way the system works" … poor excuse for "real change"
Depreciate my thoroughbred race horses over 3 years … Check
and my NASCAR racetrack over 10 years … Check
all I need now is an incentive to buy a cigarette boat so I can zip to my offshore tax shelter without the burden of having to use those low rent Marquis jets.
Joe 6er will benefit from knowing how to brew his own beer, not from any gov. sponsored bailout. A lot of Americans bought into the notion of eternal gas reserves with a Nascar/Bush administration–it's a false premise that satisfies our delusional fantasies and intentionally steers us away from reality.The attraction of a pseudo-politician like Palin who claims to have 'arctic/hunting skills' is that it distracts us from the notion that we need to be self-suficient. Better to jumpstart our internal survival mechanisms.
I'm just trying to figure out how this Joe Six-Pack can profit from all this government bailing and porking, and so forth. When's my bailout coming? When does a pork barrel project profit me? Someone better buy my vote away soon, or I'm going to have to use it as a lethal weapon.
well, considering the dems had enough votes if a few republicans would vote for it too who do you think the pork was for? the republicans of course!! so they'd switch their votes!!
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We're going to need arrows. Plus, I'm good at archery. What's wrong with that? Nascar sucks. Jump Dave, in a good way.
And while a few lucky arrow makers and racetrack owners get fat on pork, we taxpayers are left sizzling in the frying pan. Unless of course we choose to jump out into the fire. Either way, we must accept our responsibilities.