Port flap splits S.C. delegation, Graham whines
This article at The State by James Rosen details the different factions in the SC delegation on the issue of funding $400,000 for an Army Corps of Engineers study that is necessary before the port can be deepened. Lindsey Graham said “South Carolina faces economic “ruin” and “chaos” if Charleston’s port is not deepened.” The [...]
February 16, 2011
Tags: Charleston Port, earmarks, Jim DeMint, Joe Wilson, Lindsay Graham, Trey Gowdy Posted in: Uncategorized 
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Tea Party … YOU DID THIS!
For want of a nail the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe the horse was lost. For want of a horse the rider was lost. For want of a rider the battle was lost. For want of a battle the kingdom was lost. And all for the want of a horseshoe nail. Remember [...]
January 6, 2011
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Orphan Earmarks
This well researched article in USAToday by Cezary Podkul and Gregory Korte explain things about earmarks that I never even imagined. Seems there are millions? billions? of dollars that are tied up in earmarks that were once appropriated but never spent. Using highway projects as an example, the authors explain that once appropriated, those dollars [...]
January 5, 2011
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*FLASH* McConnell joins earmark ban
“psssttt.” “PSSTTTT.” “Do you think they hear us NOW?” McConnell, “I am announcing that I will join the GOP Leadership in the House in support of a moratorium on earmarks in the 112th Congress.” “The people have spoken.” “This is no small thing. Old habits aren’t easy to break, but sometimes they must be. And [...]
November 15, 2010
Tags: earmarks, Jim DeMint, Mitch McConnell Posted in: Tax/Budget/Spending, Tea Party No Comments
State Senator Lee Bright Applauds Jim DeMint
SC State Senator Lee Bright, writing at the SCSenateGOP website calls Jim DeMint’s stand against earmarks, and particularly the earmark for a study on the efficacy of dredging the Port of Charleston DeMint’s “finest hour.” I gotta agree. And by contrast … Lindsey Graham is still shameful. Sen. DeMint simply refuses to beg the Democrats [...]
November 12, 2010
Tags: earmarks, Jim DeMint, Port of Charleston, Senator Lee Bright Posted in: RINO Alert, Tax/Budget/Spending No Comments
Jeff Flake on Earmarks … Atta Boy!
Jeff Flake (AZ06) writing at the Washington Post lays it out re: earmarks. Read it all, excellent article! a few highlights: … much of the erosion of Congress’s authority relative to the executive branch over the past two decades can be traced to its obsession with earmarks. As the defenders of earmarking are fond of [...]
November 12, 2010
Tags: earmarks, Jeff Flake Posted in: National, RINO Alert, Tax/Budget/Spending No Comments
CALL YOUR REPUBLICAN SENATOR NOW: Support Senator Jim DeMint’s Earmark Ban
Erick Erickson is calling out the troops. at www.redstate.com We have waiting for TWO YEARS to have conservatives (?) / Republicans in power so we can be heard. In the very first instance where our elected Republicans can show us they’ve been listening, they’ve learned their lesson, they will represent US and not special interests [...]
November 11, 2010
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Lesson NOT Learned
Erick Erickson at Redstate gives us the latest on the earmark issue that is threatening the GOP post election. Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Senate Republicans, supported an earmarks ban and voted to ban earmarks. But he knew there weren’t enough votes for it. Now that it looks like there are enough votes, McConnell [...]
November 10, 2010
Tags: earmarks, Mitch McConnell Posted in: National No Comments
Earmarks and Balanced Budget Amendment
Steve Foley at Liberty.com has a reprint of Jim DeMint’s email from today in which DeMint: outlines two very important reforms the Senate GOP will offer up for consideration. The first one will be an “Earmark Ban Amendment” proposed by Senator DeMint and the second, will be an Amendment offered by both Sens. John Cornyn [...]
November 9, 2010
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Continuing tale of GOP earmark pledge … with some disappointments
Marc Theissen wrote a story in July in the Washington Post about the 2011 Transportation, Housing and Urban Development appropriations bill’s lack of GOP earmarks. True to its name, the THUD act has traditionally been one of the most heavily earmarked bills in Congress, and this one was no exception, containing 459 individual earmarks. But [...]
August 18, 2010
Tags: earmarks, GOP, pledge Posted in: Congressional, Tax/Budget/Spending One Comment
