The McCain-Palin Bait-and-Switch on Pork-Barrel Politics as Usual

[Stop Cornyn]

McCain has selected Palin to occupy the position one 72-year-old heartbeat from the presidency.

McCain has made of career of pretending to oppose earmarks and pork-barrel politics (although he doesn't generally vote against these Republican pork projects -- he votes for them and then expresses his crocodile tear of regret afterward).

McCain's ultimate insincerity on this issue is well illustrated by his selection of Sarah "Pork-Barrel" Palin as his running mate.

Palin supported the earmarked “bridge to nowhere” which she now falsely claims she didn’t support.

Palin has said “"The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship."

In 2001, McCain expressly criticized a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla which Palin sought.

In 2002, McCain expressly criticized Palin’s $1,000,000 earmark for a redundant communications center in Wasilla.

Again in 2002, McCain also expressly criticized Palin’s $450,000 earmark for an agricultural processing facility in Wasilla.

Wasilla received $11.9 million in earmarks from 2000 to 2003; that's about $2,000 in pork for each resident of Wasilla. Palin is truly the queen of pork-barrel politics as usual

[Czolgosz]

1. kick and rec'

[Stop Cornyn]

2. Creepy, ain't it?

[Czolgosz]

3. very

[Skwmom]

4. This should be the opening to an ad.