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You know what John McCain hates, even more than trollops and socialism? EARMARKS, which generally constitute a very small amount of any budget bill. Yesterday he threw a fit on the Senate floor about how Barack Obama did not hate earmarks enough, and then he introduced an amendment to banish all earmarks from the government funding bill now making its way through Congress. That amendment failed, of course.
Earmarks make up a whole $7.7 billion worth of the $410 billion omnibus spending bill. Why, that’s 1.9 percent of the total! WASTEY, WASTEY.
Eight Republicans, seven of whom sit on the Senate Appropriations Committee and who have been terribly corrupted by the seduction powers of earmarks, voted against the McCain amendment.
And this, in a nutshell, is why Meghan McCain can’t get laid.
McCain earmarks amendment fails [First Read]
What happened to McCain’s head bouncing on the road? I loved that one …
If only he had listened to JESUS and let the God-fearing, no-longer-possessed, Sarah Palin be at the head of the ticket, he could’ve saved himself and American from now-certain DAMNATION at the hands of Antichrist Superstar HUSSEIN ObamA!!!111!!
I have a solution for John…He should have gotten his daughter to “persuade” those eight Republicans, thus scoring a political victory for himself, and allowing Meghan to score herself. It’s win-win, people!
Even funnier is that 6 out or the top 10 earmarkers are….wait for it…..Republicans! And that includes one Mitch McConnell. Will they all have to fall prostrate to Rush Limbaugh now and beg forgiveness for dishonoring the memory of St. Ronnie for it?
ear pork _ whatever, more pictures of Meghan please!!
I’d bang Meghan McCain, and wouldn’t bring up politics while doing it.
Jesus, does one half-way flattering photo of Walnuts exist?
Poor Meghan, what she really needs is a mercy fuck from a petty despot…call me Meghan!
Clearly, WALNUTS did not do nearly enough anal to satisfy his Republican cohort. I mean, c’mon, that’s why they call it backroom politics, right?
I think that animation is not McCain being surprised, it’s McCain suddenly waking up from an accidental nap.
To his shame, Harry Reid defended earmarks by saying the spending decisions shouldn’t all be made by federal agency “bureaucrats”. I don’t mind the legislators directing some of the spending, but don’t you DARE criticize the good public servants of the federal agencies. We are damn good at our jobs, we are all here on Wonkette, and we will snark you to DEATH!
Hey, Hey, 7.7 Billion is a lot of money to some people. For example, its 6 times the market cap General Motors, which is a pretty big company. That’s how deep the poop is now, people, earmarks are real money.
Admitting you can’t get some? What a MAVERICKY thing to do!
But will we KNOW THEIR NAMES?
Somehow at this point whenever I see the tag ‘wasteful spending’, I expect onanistic shaming. I’ll try not to feel too let down. Posting additional pics of actual-woman-sized wingnutette Meghan McCain might help. Also.
will you twisted horndogs look at some real hotties in your spare time ?
meghan mccain looks like phyllis diller —
I cannot tell when this powder keg is going to go. CPAC, McCain, Limbaugh, et al are working themselves into such a spittle laden lather that they are going to suffer a collective stroke.
Fox News is garnering ratings higher than any other channel on cable save Nick and they think that means people are listening. Of course, if all other media is liberal, then you need to add them all together to see what everyone else is watching.
They are waiting for something, anything they can latch onto to build the populace rage. Blow jobs did it last time; any predictions on what it will be this time?
My fear is that their rage is and lack of ability to make a dent is going to turn into violent frustration on the part of the bitters who hang on their every word.
McCrusader is well past his expiration date.
And the thing is, most of that $7.7B in earmarks is probably worthwhile stuff. McCain likes to make fun of stuff like “honeybee research” which is only beneficial to, oh, people who eat food that comes from plants.
This is a lucky break for me. I had Senator Webb insert an earmark for an annual stipend for a Scholar of Jive, Jazz and Oblique Harlem Renaissance Allusions explicitly to go to a Wonkette commenter living in a cardboard box in Richmond, VA. I am now guaranteed a supply of coal and fingerless gloves to last out this recession!
Texan Bulldoggette: Yeah, but it was taken in 1964.
Awww. You reminded me about Meghan’s tragically unused vagina. Now I’m sad again.
I think it must have been earmarks that tortured John McCain in Vietnam because no normal person should be that obessed with standard Congressional BS.
he hates earmarks, loves pockmarks
CorkPopper: Yeah, like beaver studies & volcano research?? I think some of that research might actually elicit some good information that could benefit mankind or at least employ or keep employed some folks. Meh, but that’s just me.
If Meghan McCain wants to get laid in a nutshell, she’s got another thing comin’. JUNK IN DA TRUNK!
CorkPopper: Earmarks are things that a few politicians in DC care about, and nobody else gives a rats ass. Like immigration, it is an issue that Republicans (some of them, anyway) constantly think is going to be a HUGE ISSUE, and then they run 8,000 commercials on it, and nobody cares. And the reason nobody cares is that most earmarks are actually for good programs. Water treatment plants, honeybee research, “something called volcano monitoring,” etc. It’s fine and dandy to talk about “earmarks” in general, but then you pin someone down and ask why they don’t want to fund volcano warning programs, and they’ve got nothing to say.
Earmarks better stay the fuck off his lawn.
Its good to see the Googley Eyed McCain back. I missed that guy.
shortsshortsshorts: He doesn’t have a lawn anymore, silly. He has a condo.
Now if those earmarks try to sell him more of those goddamn thin mints….
WALNUTS!
Let me get this straight: an earmark is money set aside in a bill that is going to a specific project, correct?
So, what McAngry is railing against is the fact that we actually know what that amount of money is going to spent on? This pisses me off too.
More billions for projects unknown!
Victor Von Doom PhD: Okay, Meghan. See, some commas are important.
Earmarks = Ear worm.
Sara’s summation of what Walnuts’ fail means makes more sense than Walnuts yelling at Obama for Repugtard earmarks in Bush’s bill–and best Walnuts video, ever.
That fuckhead Tom Coburn’s single issue (besides abortion and gays, of course) is being anti-earmarks. As a true believer, he won’t ask for a dime for his state. MY state. So while the okies think “yeah, fuckin’ great, he’s a maverick,” they never put together the fact we’re the state being thrown under the bus because of Coburn’s ideology. And we could damn sure use some earmarks around here, esp. if they’re marked “bridge project.”
Fuckin’ earmarks.
“First the factories close, then come the whores, with their little behind shakes.”
Walnuts is such a ham, again with this pork shit. I’m all for Megz getting laid, but the nutshell thing sounds a little incest-y.
I suspect…I can’t be sure of course…but I just sort of suspect that there are republican congresstypes with constituents who benefit from earmarks and that those same republican congresspeople EVEN WRITE EARMARKS INTO BILLS!!!
Just think, someday people will be looking at pictures of that man and saying he was the last serious Republican nominee for president.
2012- Limbaugh/Palin
2016- Jindal/Paul Harvey Jr.
2020- Norris/Coulter
2024- Republican Party is history.
AfghanVet: “My fear is that their rage is and lack of ability to make a dent is going to turn into violent frustration on the part of the bitters who hang on their every word.”
Oh, how I wish the above sounded like a crazed libtard who had a satellite dish, tuned only to LINK TV and MSNBC, on his bunker where he was living on soy “meat” and fair-trade coffee.
The wingers’ overlords are working these feaks into a bizarre frenzy which is esp. scary when you consider how deep are their stockpiles of weapons. (The gun sales since election day scare me shitless). I’ve seen the newsreal footage of the bitters during the Lesser Depression in the 30s. I know how they work.
In the Greater Depression, Laffbaugh, Glen Dreck, Sean Dickety and Bill O’Gag have got the Jews to blame for fucking up the economy. The Mexicans for taking the jobs. And the n*****s for being in the White House. And the gays, of course, because Jesus said to hate them.
Too Lazy To Sign In: I agree. Those quaint bygone days when Walnuts would get all goofy and do silly stunts were a lot of fun. Now there’s a real president, and it’s all serious serious serious.
I think Walnuts should have a daily show to muse out loud about stuff, with lots of reporters pretending to ask questions and care and everything.
AfghanVet: They are waiting for something, anything they can latch onto to build the populace rage. Blow jobs did it last time; any predictions on what it will be this time?
That he’s black.
How does Meghan feel about EARMUFFS? RIGHT or WRONG this season?
Dr. Representative Ron Paul, earmark leader: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/030209dntswearmarks.1cf6ba3.html
There’s something theraputic about cracking walnuts.
Lionel Hutz Esq.: My huband gets right wing email from local folks around here. During the election, it was all about the Muslim thing. They lost, so now they’re just blatantly racist.
If the worst happens, and I’m not even going to use the a word because I can’t stand to think about it, they’ll celebrate. They’re that sick. Can’t we break out some of Bush’s legal opinions and lock these people up as terrorists?
I loDave J.: I love the “something called” bit…reminds me of the Bushie’s and their Bushie-speak. Phrases that normally outs someone as a clueless, hack-ster fraud only fueled their popularity…remember, “I am no expert…”
DustBowlBlues:
Oh, the sweet irony of the policies of their beloved Bush rendering them as enemies of the state.
slithytoves: By any chance are you a unemployed English major?
CorkPopper: Only you Elitist Socialist Muslins ‘eat food that comes from plants’… us REAL Americans shop at Wal-Mart!!1!
Servo: except this time, the renditions would be entirely justified…
Do any of you stop to think that Republicans never admit to having sex? Sex is a sin. Republicans are sinless. Says so in the bible. So Meghan is, probably, in an airport men’s room looking for sex as we speak.