Antiwar Veteran Adam Kokesh [rph-NOT] Arrested at VA Protest in Washington DC???

[Zuras]

Nope, I just recall McCain constantly lying about earmarks during the campaign. I'm still searching for the main story I want to find on it,

Might I suggest the Daily Kos or Huffington Compost? You'd fit in smashingly.

 

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McCain's fantasy war on earmarks.

"I can eliminate $100 billion of wasteful and earmark spending immediately--35 billion in big spending bills in the last two years, and another 65 billion that has already been made a permanent part of the budget."
--John McCain, NPR All Things Considered, April 23, 2008.

but there wasn't any where near that much to eliminate nor did McCain actually favor getting rid of most of it when asked about the specific stuff he wanted to eliminate.

The CRS study breaks down earmarks by different government departments, without giving a global figure. According to Scott Lilly, a former Democratic appropriations staffer now with the Center for American Progress Action Fund, the CRS study identifies a total of $52 billion in earmarks for a single year. However, much of this money is tied to items such as foreign aid to countries like Israel, Egypt, and Jordan, that McCain says he will not touch.

By most definitions of the term, the amount of money spent on earmarks is much lower than the CRS study. The Office for Management and the Budget came up with a figure for $16.9 billion in the 2008 appropriation bills. Taxpayers for Commonsense, an independent watchdog group that focuses on wasteful spending, identified $18.3 billion worth of earmarks in the 2008 bills, a 23 per cent cut from a record $23.6 billion set in 2005.

How much of this $18.3 billion could be eliminated is a "difficult question that we have not yet figured out," said Taxpayers for Commonsense vice-president Steve Ellis. The figure includes such items as $4 billion for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which could not be eliminated without halting hundreds of construction projects around the country. Another big chunk goes to military construction, including housing for servicemen and their families, which McCain has also promised not to touch.

Bruce Riedl, a budget analyst with the Heritage Foundation, says it might be possible to eliminate roughly half the expenditure on earmarks every year, i.e. around $9 billion, using the Taxpayers for Commonsense figures. He identified $5 billion in Community Development Block Grant funds, most of which goes to local governments, as a prime target for cuts. Even if earmarks were eliminated altogether, many other expenditures would have to be shifted to other parts of the budget.

 

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Zuras,

Hold tight, I'm still searching for the story I really want to find on McLiar regarding earmarks. But while you're waiting maybe you should leave this site since you'd fit in better at Rushlimbaugh or Redstate?

 

[Zuras]

Zuras,

Hold tight, I'm still searching for the story I really want to find on McLiar regarding earmarks. But while you're waiting maybe you should leave this site since you'd fit in better at Rushlimbaugh or Redstate?

You are. I knew it. You are a lefty plant. Busted, troll.

 

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McLiar bends his primary campaign reform pledge of eliminating all earmarks.

On the campaign trail, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) makes a big show of claiming that he is the “worst nightmare” of Congressional spending and that if elected, he “will veto every bill with earmarks.” At the same time, McCain’s campaign has said it will “cut some $160 billion in discretionary spending” out of the budget, including $95 billion that “began life as an earmark

and

But in an interview with NPR’s Robert Siegel yesterday, McCain bent his earmark elimination pledge, indicating that he would consider making an exception for projects like the Gee’s Bend ferry that he recently visited in Alabama:

SIEGEL: Why should voters, particularly in those places, believe that you’d do any better by them than other politicians, especially when you might even take away the earmarks that might bring them a new construction project or something like that?

SEN. MCCAIN: I can assure them that the earmarks that they have received, which have been few and far between because they are not represented by powerful lobbyists and special interests in Washington, that we will judge any expenditure of the American people’s tax dollars on the basis of need. Someone pointed out several earmarks that have been fortunately gifted to some of the neediest people in comparison to the earmarks that have gone, first of all. For an example, at Gee’s Bend they put in a ferry a couple years ago, and that was an earmark

and

Just as with his false claim that he is “the only one the special interests don’t give any money to,” McCain has a credibility gap whenever he makes a sweeping statement that he will eliminate all earmarks.

As Think Progress has noted, in order to fulfill his pledge, McCain would need to cut U.S. aid for Israel and military housing. Faced with this reality earlier this week, McCain told ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos that he would make an exception for such programs.

Thus far, McCain refuses to “name programs he’ll cut” and when challenged on particular programs, he seems to always make an exception. Is that what he calls “straight talk?”

 

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moron

You are. I knew it. You are a lefty plant. Busted, troll.

Moron, I'm not new. I have multple accounts here.

 

[Kludge]

Moron, I'm not new. I have multple accounts here.

The lot of you look like sock puppets to me.

 

[Zuras]

Moron, I'm not new. I have multple accounts here.

Yes, yes, I have already covered the fact you are a meatpuppet. I didn't need a ouija board for that.

 

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meat puppet

Yes, yes, we have already covered the fact you are a meatpuppet. I didn't need a ouija board for that.

What exactly is a meat puppet btw? That sounds like a homosexual connotation to me?

 

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new person=Zeus

Yes, yes, I have already covered the fact you are a meatpuppet. I didn't need a ouija board for that.

I love how you just joined the board yet you're accusing other people of being trolls because you have been here for an extra month. Are you a McCain troll who came here after McLiar lost?

 

[Zuras]

What exactly is a meat puppet btw? That sounds like a homosexual connotation to me?

It's an old MUD term for sock puppets.

 

[Kludge]

In case anyone was wondering, multiple accounts are not permitted on RPFs...

Just to be clear, multiple accounts per person are not allowed but I did make an exception for Dr. Yongrel and Dr. Amy since it was obvious what their other account is. We really don't want 500+ new Dr. accounts so future ones will be limited or not allowed. Sorry everyone.

 

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once agaib

It's an old MUD term for sock puppets.

I love how you just joined the board yet you're accusing other people of being trolls because you have been here for an extra month. Are you a McCain troll who came here after McLiar lost?



Once again- why are you claiming to be a veteran Ron Paul supporter and pulling rank on people just because you've been here for two months?

 

[nobody's_hero]

Zuras,

Adam Kokesh spent more time campaigning for people to vote 3rd party than any other anti-war activist I know of. I find it highly unlikely that he voted for Obama (or McCain, for that matter).

But, seeing as this is now the rHATEution, let's not let the lack of fact-based analysis interrupt our unwarranted disdain for others in this movement.

 

[Kludge]

It's an old MUD term for sock puppets.

I love how you just joined the board yet you're accusing other people of being trolls because you have been here for an extra month. Are you a McCain troll who came here after McLiar lost?

Once again- why are you claiming to be a veteran Ron Paul supporter and pulling rank on people just because you've been here for two months?

Are you both Wonkette trolls?

 

[Invalid]

Well this Zuras guy isn't the sharpest tool in the shed. McCain trolls come here, and accuse Ron Paul supporters of being meat puppets.

This is very ironic.

 

[TER]

So let me get this straight. A supposed liberty loving conservative Ron Paul supporter who has been on this forum for a whole 2 months is degrading Adam Kokesh and defending McWar?

This is a joke, right?

 

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2 months

So let me get this straight. A supposed liberty loving conservative Ron Paul supporter who has been on this forum for a whole 2 months is degrading Adam Kokesh and defending McWar?

This is a joke, right?

Yes, he's been here 2-3 months, yet he's pulling rank on me because he claims he is a veteran Ron Paul supporter who is obliged to defend the McLiar.

Keep in mind, I'm not the one who accused him of being new. He brought the topic up.

 

[Kludge]

This is a joke, right?

Hell if I know...

 

[GunnyFreedom]

IMHO, McCain is guilty of High Treason, and deserves to be tried in a legal court of law, and legally hanged on the Washington Mall. Obama is an evil socialist foreign national, and McCain is an evil socialist traitor. The only idiots around here, are those who thought that the two of these constituted a 'choice' of any kind.