Omnibus Hypocricy in the Senate

It is nice to hear that Senators saying things along the line of "no more bridges to nowhere." I agreed to an extent with the Republican leadership that there were to many solo earmarks in the Omnibus spending bill. What I do not agree with is that out of the Omnibus bill is that they have become hypocrites.


MSNBC Reported

"Indeed, of the 35 U.S. senators who opposed the omnibus spending bill last night -- in the form of a "no" on the cloture vote -- 28 of them had solo earmarks in the legislation.

In total, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, these 28 senators had a combined 307 solo earmarks totaling nearly $240 million. The breakdown is below."

I commend the 7 principled legislator without earmarks in the bill, but as you can see (from list below) the leadership had more earmarks than any other naysayer. McConnell the minority leader has a lot of answering to do.

McConnell simply said “this spending spree needs to come to an end.”

'Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) called the spending bill a "missed opportunity" and urged President Obama to veto it. "The bill costs far too much for a government that should be watching every dime," he said.'

But what Sen. Mitch McConnell doesn't mention in his comments about spending is that he himself (a member of the Appropriations Cmte.) secured 75 million in earmarks in the bill and 51 million in solo sponsored earmarks.

If you ask me it seems like complete talking point Fraud. Saying one thing, and doing the exact opposite. This is why republican talking points are sometimes effective but often wrong and not founded in reality.

Many point out this bill is bloated but forget to mention, it is bloated with their own pet projects.

Here is the Obama response to the earmark hypocrisy.




Here's the breakdown:
Barrasso (4 earmarks, $2.7 million)
Bayh (4 earmarks, $1.2 million)
Bennett (23 earmarks, $18 million)
Brownback (21 earmaks, $12 million)
Bunning (5 earmarks, $735,000)
Burr (3 earmarks, $1.3 million)
Chambliss (7 earmarks, $4.3 million)
Collins (1 earmark, $380,000)
Corker (1 earmark, $760,000)
Cornyn (5 earmarks, $2.5 million)
Crapo (1 earmark, $100,000)
Enzi (5 earmarks, $1.7 million)
Graham (14 earmarks, $9.5 million)
Grassley (8 earmarks, $350,000)
Gregg (19 earmarks, $10 million)
Hatch (7 earmarks, $700,000)
Hutchison (35 earmarks, $9.9 million)
Inhofe (34 earmarks, $53 million)
Isakson (2 earmarks, $1.4 million)
Kyl (3 earmarks, $5 million)
Lugar (10 earmarks, $3.3 million)
Martinez (8 earmarks, $18.8 million)
McConnell (36 earmarks, $51 million)
Roberts (11 earmarks, $2.2 million)
Sessions (12 earmarks, $4.3 million)
Thune (6 earmarks, $4.3 million)
Vitter (16 earmarks, $4 million)
Voinovich (6 earmarks, $13.5 million)