PROMISES, PROMISES: GOP leader reaps $200 million

[ProSense]

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Senate Republicans' ban on earmarks — money included in a bill by a lawmaker to benefit a home-state project or interest — was short-lived.

Only three days after GOP senators and senators-elect renounced earmarks, Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl, the No. 2 Senate Republican, got himself a whopping $200 million to settle an Arizona Indian tribe's water rights claim against the government.

Kyl slipped the measure into a larger bill sought by President Barack Obama and passed by the Senate on Friday to settle claims by black farmers and American Indians against the federal government. Kyl's office insists the measure is not an earmark, and the House didn't deem it one when it considered a version earlier this year.

But it meets the know-it-when-you-see-it test, critics say. Under Senate rules, an earmark is a spending item inserted "primarily at the request of a senator" that goes "to an entity, or (is) targeted to a specific state."



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101123/ap_on_go_co/us_what_earmark_ban_1

[handmade34]

1. I abhor all that the Republicans

stand for and spew these days... but I think I will give Kyl a pass on this one.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Typical Republicons: a total freaking Hypocrite

NOBODY does hypocrisy more thoroughly than the republicons. They got it perfected.

[AKing]

3. Teabag This,Suckers!