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Bipartisan Corruption: Congress steals $2.6 billion from troops to fund pork barrel projects

Senators diverted $2.6 billion in funds in a defense spending bill to pet projects largely at the expense of accounts that pay for fuel, ammunition and training for U.S. troops, including those fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to an analysis.

Among the 778 such projects, known as earmarks, packed into the bill: $25 million for a new World War II museum at the University of New Orleans and $20 million to launch an educational institute named after the late Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, Massachusetts Democrat.

While earmarks are hardly new in Washington, "in 30 years on Capitol Hill, I never saw Congress mangle the defense budget as badly as this year," said Winslow Wheeler, a former Senate staffer who worked on defense funding and oversight for both Republicans and Democrats. He is now a senior fellow at the Center for Defense Information, an independent research organization.

Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, called the transfer of funds from Pentagon operations and maintenance "a disgrace."

"The Senate is putting favorable headlines back home above our men and women fighting on the front lines," he said in a statement.

Mr. Wheeler, who conducted the study, compared the Obama administration's requests for funds with the $636 billion spending bill that the Senate passed. He discovered that senators added $2.6 billion in pet projects while spending $4 billion less than the administration requested for fiscal 2010, which began Oct. 1.

Mr. Wheeler said that senators took most of the cash for the projects from the "operations and maintenance" or O&M accounts.

"These are the accounts that pay for troop training, repairs, spares and supplies for vehicles, weapons, ships and planes, food and fuel," Mr. Wheeler said.

Raiding those accounts to fund big-ticket projects the military does not want, but that benefit senators' home states or campaign contributors, amounts to "rancid gluttony," he said.

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Mr. Inouye [D-HI] had a total of 35 earmarks worth more than $206 million in the final bill, and the ranking Republican on the committee, Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, sponsored 48 worth $216 million.

Barack Obama Wins 2009 Nobel Peace Prize and...

As always when the demacrooks are in power expect lots of pork in important items

Congress does it again: Defense cuts facilitate $445 million in pork barrel projects in energy bill

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All told, the bill would provide $445 million for "congressionally directed projects" at DOE. That's a decline of 5.9% from the 2009 fiscal year, according to the American Association for the Advancement of Science. But factoring out defense-related portions of the agency's budget, earmarks at the department would total $421 million in fiscal 2010, an 8.4% increase from 2009, the group says.

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Ever seen an "Obama Voter" shop?

Shiny Puffed Up Balloon

Humility, Obama style ... pretty amusing

That was pretty funny, mega. I read through the comments. There's one screeching moonbat, armed only with talking points to puke up:

Fox News! Sarah Palin! GOP dead as a doornail! Did I mention Fox News????/!!!!!!

A joke to start your weekend: John the farmer was in the fertilized egg business. He had several hundred young layers (hens), called 'pullets', and ten roosters, whose job it was to fertilize the eggs. The farmer kept records and any rooster that didn't perform went into the soup pot and was replaced. That took an awful lot of his time, so he bought a set of tiny bells and attached them to his roosters. Each bell had a different tone so John could tell from a distance, which rooster was performing. Now he could sit on the porch and fillout an efficiency report simply by listening to the bells. The farmer's favorite rooster was Old Barak, and a very fine specimen he was, too. But on this particular morning John noticed old Barak's bell hadn't rung at all! John went to investigate. The other roosters were chasing pullets, bells-a-ringing. The pullets, hearing the roosters coming, would run for cover. But to Farmer John's amazement, old Barak had his bell in his beak, so it couldn't ring. He would sneak up on a pullet, do his job and walk on to the next one. John was so proud of old Barak, he entered him in the County Fair and he became an overnight sensation among the judges. The result...The judges not only awarded Old Barak the No-Bell Piece Prize but they also awarded him the Pulletsurprise as well. Clearly old Barak was a politician in the making: Who else but a serious politician could figure out how to win two of the most highly coveted awards on our planet by being the best at sneaking up on the populace and screwing them when they weren't paying attention.

Hey Batshitcrazyville,

Now you have an excuse to hate France all over again... Yee Haaaa!! Freedom fries are coming back!

"Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "It sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples." In other words, this was Europe's way of saying to America, "We love you again"...

obama's new sing along!
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1xuvd_bobby-mcferrin-dont-worry-be-happy_music

An interesting story from Louisiana...Is a Justice of the Peace required by law to marry any couple? or can he refuse if he has a reason (whether you agree with him or not??)

http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/64466672.html?showAll=y&c=y

"Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "It sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples." In other words, this was Europe's way of saying to America, "We love you again"...

And we're seeing all the benefit of that love already! Why, compared to the time before Obama...everything is exactly the fucking same.

Grow up.

The entire peace prize commity should be sent to the spicemines of kessel for the rest of their lives

MSNBC Admits: ‘Unable to Verify’ False Limbaugh Quote; No Retraction or Apology

Fierce competition for this year's "Rather Prize."

(...and film czar Polanski has given me some ideas on a sure way to impress the Peace Prize commissars next year!)

hahahaha hee hee hee

Island nation of Maldives to hold underwater Cabinet meeting to show climate change threat

Mega, that is a HILARIOUS example of Moonbattery. LOL, I have a tip for them--use grease pencils instead of water-based markets for their whiteboards! I hope they videotape this, because it's going to be comedy gold.

"Graycat at October 16, 2009 11:44 AM"

Thank you. It's 8:22 here in Florida, so in an hour I will go to bed with a smile!

Judith, I was thinking the same thing, it would be comedy gold of the highest order to see a video of that meeting!!

Judith, I was thinking the same thing, it would be comedy gold of the highest order to see a video of that meeting!!

What a great time for a shark feeding frenzy!

Here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9Jm1x9ShIU&feature=player_embedded

testing something

"Of all the explanations for Barack Obama's Nobel Peace Prize, the one that rang truest came from French President Nicolas Sarkozy. "It sets the seal on America's return to the heart of all the world's peoples." In other words, this was Europe's way of saying to America, "We love you again"...

Posted by: Jay Guevara at October 16, 2009 2:24 PM

I'm sure I remember Sarkozy being something resembling a conservative not too long ago. Whatever happened to the guy?

In other news, France is socialist shithole that spent much of the 20th century on the wrong side of history, and Sarkozy's popularity is tanking since his shift from centre-right conservative to Obama-loving moonbat.

Why is it important that they like us, again?

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