Monkey see as monkey do? Not when it comes to the Tea Party Caucus and earmarks.
“Members of the Congressional Tea Party Caucus may tout their commitment to cutting government spending now, but they used the 111th Congress to request hundreds of earmarks that, taken cumulatively, added more than $1 billion to the federal budget,” according to Hotline On Call.
The 52 members of the caucus requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1.1 billion during Fiscal Year 2010, the last year for which records are available, according to the report.
“It’s disturbing to see the Tea Party Caucus requested that much in earmarks. This is their time to put up or shut up, to be blunt,” David Williams, vice president for policy at Citizens Against Government Waste, told the National Journal’s HotlineOnCall. “There’s going to be a huge backlash if they continue to request earmarks.”
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Sure didn’t take them long to cozy up to the trough. It’s like a bad joke, only not funny.
The article made me sick……there’s the Tea Party anger against the deficit and then there’s news on how much the Tea Party added to the deificit. Is there any way to check if this article is accurate. Sorry, but it seems hard to believe.
Shanti
It would be ever so refreshing for somebody
Representing the locally based TP would come here and ‘spain how this could be. I recall NOBODY is in charge by design so who might that be, I wonder.
Questions like: HOW CAN THIS BE, ACTION PLANNED TO UNDO THE EARMARKS, HOW THEY CAN IGNORE IT LOCALLY AND NATIONALLY, HOW CAN THEY CHANGE STRIPES SO QUICKLY OR WAS THE TP USED? HEADS GONNA ROLL AND HOW TO PREVENT FURTHER EARMARKS IR WERE FOLKS JUST LIED TO?
“WAS THE TP USED”???? Yep, I just hope they washed their hands after using it!