“Go-along to get-along”
Earmarks are a way for congressmen to insert funding into pet projects for their districts into larger bills. This is also termed “Pork” by those who oppose such earmarks.
Representative Mike Rogers (R - MI) had the audacity to attempt to strike a $23 million earmark for the National Drug Intelligence Center (no, I haven’t heard of it either), which is located in powerful Rep. Jack Murtha’s (D - PA, pictured above) district. Murtha retaliated quite openly, and Rogers sought ethics violations.
The two party system is corrupt, and there’s really not a damn thing we can do about it.
“The rich get rich. The cops get paid to look away as the 1% rules America.” - Queensrÿche, Spreading the Disease
Don’t touch the earmarks!
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
