Little Johnny throws another tantrum in Congress. He's pissed at Obama because of earmarks in the new budget but it's the party of Rush the Destroyer who got the most of them. Seems he might want to direct a tiny bit of anger to his fellow Rethugs.
Angry
McCain is back, but it's not like angry McCain really ever left. He's
mad at Obama. Some reporters and pundits probably thought McCain would
return to the Senate as a statesman. As if. McCain doesn't have that
capacity. The only way McCain gets news these days is to have a
tantrum. And, he had one yesterday on the Senate floor:
The
rollercoaster-like relationship between President Obama and John McCain
has taken a dive in recent weeks, culminated by the Arizona
Republican’s scathing Monday speech on the Senate floor.
McCain’s
diatribe on the Obama administration’s decision to look the other way
as lawmakers secured thousands of earmarks in the pending $410 billion
omnibus budget measure contrasts with the pleasantries the presidential
candidates exchanged soon after the election.
The anti-earmark
legislator didn’t mince words on Monday, delivering a harsher speech
than the prepared text that was posted on his Senate website.
Mocking
the White House for failing to speak out against earmarks such as a
$1.7 million fund for pig odor research in Iowa, McCain said, “So much
for the promise of change, Mr. President. So much for the promise of
change.”
Best line from his "diatribe" was:
“If it sounds like I’m angry, it’s because I am.”
We know. We've always known. It's predictable and is just so easy to mock.
(
link AMERICAblog)
If it's budget time, it's good to be a red state. And it's very good to be Mississippi.
According to an analysis by the nonpartisan Taxpayers for Common Sense, Mississippi has won the earmark contest in the omnibus budget package.
Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Cochran led his colleagues by
raking in more than $470 million in 204 earmarks. Mississippi's junior
Republican, Roger Wicker, pulled in more than $390 million. The totals
can't be added together because the figure includes earmarks each
received solo and with others, so the same earmark could be in both
senators' column. Cochran, on his own, pulled in roughly $76 million
and Wicker brought home $4 million.(link Huffington Post)
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