Anti-Earmark Bachmann Open To Earmark 'Redefinition' For Her District

[Joanne98]

Rep. Michelle Bachmann (R-MN) hates earmarks. Despises them. On her website, she calls the earmark system "little more than a political favor factory at taxpayer expense." But when it comes to her own district, she's in favor of a little earmark "redefinition." Because what is an earmark, after all?

"Advocating for transportation projects for one's district in my mind does not equate to an earmark," Bachmann told the Minneapolis Star-Tribune yesterday.

"I don't believe that building roads and bridges and interchanges should be considered an earmark," Bachmann continued. "There's a big difference between funding a tea pot museum and a bridge over a vital waterway."

Bachmann, the leader of the House Tea Party Caucus, has made earmark reform a big part of her crusade against wasteful government spending.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/anti-earmark-bachmann-open-to-earmark-redefinition-for-her-district.php?ref=fpi

[madmom]

1. Wonder what kind of "redefinition" these will get...

http://farm.ewg.org/region.php?fips=MN06&progcode=total&yr=m2009

[Lil Missy]

2. She learned the art of weasel wording from the cheney administration. n/t

[Tippy]

3. K&R...For a TWO FACED..........teabagging whore

I won't tell you how I really feel about her.....

[gratuitous]

4. Your dedicated appropriation is an earmark, you goddam America-hating socialist!

Michele Bachmann's is simply good advocacy for a vital project.

See the difference? Or are you some kind of dirty fucking hippie?