Out-of-touch Earmarks & Elites
Briefing | By Lance Nation | September 26, 2008
Those congressmen who defend earmarks as necessary may be grateful that
few in the Washington press corps look too carefully at them.
“I realized that there was no merit in this system,” U. S. Rep. John Kline, R-Minn., said at the weekly meeting of Washington, D. C. area bloggers at the Heritage Foundation.
“Jim Oberstar who represents the 8th District in Minnesota got as much
money for transportation earmarked for that district as the other seven
of us combined.”
“Was that because the 8th district was growing faster and had greater
transportation needs? No, in fact the opposite is true . . . Then, I
looked a little closer and I noticed that Mr. Oberstar had gotten as
much money earmarked for bike trails in and round Duluth, as I did for
roads and bridges in one of the fastest growing districts in Minnesota
. . .”
“And, it had become abundantly clear to me that the system had to be
stopped and fundamentally changed if we are going to have any sort of
earmarking system where members of Congress can designate money to
various projects . . .”
The congressman has helped inaugurate a new web site to call attention
to abuse of earmarks and other legislative stratagems. “This is an
effort, StopthePork.com,
to reach out to people across America to sign our petition, so that I
can take it to the new Congress in January and say, ‘Stop this Pork.’”
Also during the briefing, journalist Ericka Anderson unveiled the new site Culture11.com.
“[Culture 11] is a web magazine attempting to democratize the
entertainment and cultural space again,” she explained. “So many
culture magazines tell readers, ‘This is American culture;’ while, my
mom sitting over in Indiana thinks, ‘No, no it’s not’ . . .”
“There is a disconnect between what people are told American culture is
and what American culture actually is. We want to be the outlet and
forum for people to connect and reflect on how people actually live in
America.”
Getting its name from the 11 key topics the site focuses on, Ericka and
her colleagues hope Culture11 will “balance the monopoly of liberal
media that has taken over the country.”
Lance Nation is an intern at the American Journalism Center, a training program run by Accuracy in Media and Accuracy in Academia
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I would like to put a ‘McCain Palin” bumper sticker on my car, but I can’t because I know my tires would get slashed and/or my windows would get smashed. But if I wanted to place an “Obama Biden” bumper sticker on my car I could do so without fear of vandalism.
My neighborhood is pretty evenly split along party lines. I see many Obama bumper stickers all over the show
Jack, Do your homework on Whom The Left really is….. all the Failed Eastern European ‘Intellectuals’ of the Leo Strauss school of Trotsky Communism. AKA The Neocons.
Just as Dick Cheney said about serving during The Vietnam days….. ” I had other things to do” or Tom DeLay, ‘The ranks/slots were filled with the poor and minorities, so I couldn’t enlist” or Karl Rove who attended a University that Blantly told Vietnam Veterans to get off Our Campus. No Sir, America is Not Worth Fighting for any longer while the ‘Elite’ goes walking around hand in hand with Saudi Princes, you know the Hyjackers were Saudis. While the Banks give out Home loans to Illegals and Veterans have to shed Blood Sweat and Tears to come up with a 20% down on a fixer upper.
The Inane ‘Intellectuals’ of the Left exited the stage (60’s) only to reemerge stage Right (70’s) as the ‘Emphericals’ of a Liberal Democracy. This Nation is a Constitutional Republic that they have been destroying Aritcle by Article.
Do Your Homework…........ Both OBama and McCain have Publically pledged thier alegiance to Israel, Not The United States of America.
When a Geroge Washington or Andrew Jackson appears on the scene perhaps it’s worth fighting for. Until then enjoy and laugh at ‘Looking for WMD’s’ skits by ” A War President”.
Fred Miles - I have done my homework - if you do not like what I said, that is your right to say so - but do not make accusations that I have not done my homework. I was stating what a liberal is to me. Now if you are saying that people on the left side of the Republican Party should be included in that description then just say so instead of deriding what I had to say. If you look back on previous posts of mine, you will find that those people, on the left of the Repubs, I DO also include as really liberals. It is also why I call myself a Conservative or a Traditionalist - as those that operate the Republican Party are too far to the left for me.
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Congressman Kline and Ericka Anderson certainly have their work cut out for them. The corruption and rot are so imbedded in the system, controlled by the left, that I suspect most Americans have written off America as no longer salvagable.
Many of us fight but the rhetoric has now gotten so nasty coming from the left. At one time we could debate and disagree, but now when anyone fighting for America says anything against how the left thinks they are threathened and intimidated and slammed and called despicable things. And a lot of those that were willing to speak out in the past have been so shouted down that they go away. I know that is the very reason that the left does what they do. To them the ends justify the means and being nasty towards those they disagree with, and hate has to be a better word for it, is normal for them now as it works.
Joseph Goebbels could have learned a lot for his propaganda efforts from the left in America today - and the sad part is the eliminating your enemies part of the Nazis is what I suspect the left has in store for us one day in the future.