'PORK' increased 102% under rethug Congress from 9/11 to 2006.

[spanone]

I'm so tired of hearing bu$h* bitch about the 'pork' in the current appropriations bill. When the Thugs were in control earmarks increased 102% from 9/11 to 2006. mr. bu$h* never once complained or bitched about republican pork

~snip~ since Sept. 11, 2001. During this time of de facto war, Congress’ defense pork has grown from 1,409 individual earmarks in 2002 to 2,847 in 2006 (an increase of 1,438 or 102 percent). ~snip~

http://www.cdi.org/friendlyversion/printversion.cfm?documentID=3361

[bouwob1]

1. I love most of all

the anti tax people that are complaining about pork and blaming it all on the democrats. Look at the size of the whitehouse under clinton compared to bush. Clinton didnt run on small governmant but he sure did a much better job of it than bush.

[Arkansas Granny]

2. Look at this article from the Washington Post about Republican pork.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/03/AR2007040301736_pf.html

But such spending has been part of Iraq funding bills since the war began, sometimes inserted by the president himself, sometimes added by lawmakers with bipartisan aplomb.

<snip>

The president's own request last year for emergency war spending included $20 billion for Gulf Coast hurricane recovery, $2.3 billion for bird flu preparations, and $2 billion to fortify the border with Mexico and pay for his effort to send National Guardsmen to the southern frontier.

The Republican-controlled Senate tried to load the 2006 bill with $4 billion for agricultural subsidies, $1.1 billion for the Gulf Coast fishing industry, $594 million for highway projects unrelated to Hurricane Katrina, and $700 million for rerouting a rail line in Mississippi.

<snip>

The 2005 emergency war-spending bill included $70 million for aid to Ukraine and other former Soviet states; $12.3 million for the Architect of the Capitol, in part to build an off-site delivery facility for the Capitol police; $24 million for the Forest Service to repair flood and landslide damage; and $104 million for watershed protection -- the lion's share meant for repairing the damage to waterways in Washington County, Utah, at the request of the state's Republican senators.

Of course, not all of these made it into the final bill that was passed, but it does underscore the fact that a "clean" bill is not what is normally sent to the President.

[spanone]

4. I've heard no one disputing the little king shit on this. We certainly can't count on the media.

[liberal N proud]

3. What the republicons had was more than pork, it was highway robbery

Their earmarks amounted to gross theft from the US Treasury to pay for political favors like this nation had never seen before.

[rurallib]

5. Access to the megaphone allows Repubs to distort everything

I wish we had just one small network.

[Parche]

6. Pork

The other white meat...........