Comments on: Oink, Oink! “Moderate” Budget Hypocrites Sure Love Their Pork

By: igo2go

igo2go — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 08:15:56 +0000

To pork or not to pork that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to slobber
Oer the slops and earmarks of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The porkfest and the trillion dollar natural shocks
That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d. To die, to sleep;
To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
And must earn our dough: there’s the respect
That makes calamity of so long life;
For who would bear the whips and scorns of time,
And survive whenst off ye suckling sweet public tit
The oppressor’s wrong, the proud man’s contumely,
The pangs of despised love, the law’s delay,
The insolence of office and the spurns
That patient merit of the unworthy takes,
When he himself might his quietus make
With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear,
To grunt and sweat under a weary life,
But that the dread of something after death,
The undiscover’d country from whose bourn
No traveller returns, puzzles the will
And makes us rather bear those ills we have
Than fly to others that we know not of?
Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;
And thus the native hue of resolution
Is sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought,
And enterprises of great pitch and moment
With this regard their currents turn awry,
And lose the name of action.– Soft you now!
The fair Nancy! Nymph, in thy orisons
Be all my sins and earmarks be unremember’d.

By: TheLurkingMod

TheLurkingMod — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 04:03:23 +0000

watertiger is upstairs!
Rush Limbaugh Invites President Obama to a Pants Party

By: Knut

Knut — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:48:05 +0000

None of them has offered an opinion as to which particular pieces of spending should be cut. Until they do, they can STFU.

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:46:40 +0000

What pisses me off the most about this earmark bullshit is the opportunity cost. While everyone is wasting time on the red herring, real problems exist that might need solving.

By: Larue

Larue — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:41:54 +0000

Click on the database highlighted in first sentence for a download of a 2.4MB .xls spreadsheet with all the info you’ll ever need about money and marks.This Was Posted In An FDL Thread Somewhere.

Here’s The Home Page.

And a hat tip to who ever it was, likely in an Oxdown Diary, methinks . . . nice catch and thanks for sharing.

By: Phoenix Woman

Phoenix Woman — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:41:34 +0000

Oh, and if the Gang of Fourteen was so against all earmarks and pork, then why did this vote to kill some earmarks in the bill fail? Some of these people had to have voted to preserve those earmarks — simple math says so.

By: MarkH

MarkH — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:36:12 +0000

Democracy Now

Wall Street poured into Washington in campaign contributions and lobbying over the last ten years. Their answer? A staggering $5.1 billion over the past decade.

So, how’s that working out for them now?

Can you imagine, they paid for this mess. How much wealth was lost on Wall St.? Idiots. Now they oppose plans to fix things. Idiots.

By: DWR1

DWR1 — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:31:43 +0000

Thanks for that.

By: ibfreenow

ibfreenow — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:21:23 +0000

One persons pork, is another persons bacon…

STFU all of you Blue-dog pieces of shit!
Now you get all cost concious on us? NOW? After you gave Bush everything he wanted, off budget? NOW you gotta watch after our dollars.
It’s like you’re guarding your sisters virginity after you’ve fucked her.
I can’t take listening to you anymore.
STFU! I will do everything in my power to help any Liberal running against these stupid assholes.

By: puppethead

puppethead — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 03:11:58 +0000

Here’s a breakdown of federal spending per dollar of federal taxes from 2005.