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Been earmarks. $8 billion of this is earmarks, that s less than 1% of the entire bill. but that became the symbol of what this represents. and so every republican, you know, in the senate looked at this and said, look at mike castle in delaware. look at nevada. look at alaska. in primaries this year where establishment figures were beaten. do i want to be the next person to face that kind of a primary challenge because i voted for this bill, because i voted for earmarks? much easier to join the republican resistance. so you had this bizarre situation where you had people who had earmarks in this bill coming out and saying they were opposing their own earmarks. yeah, it really was a comedy of errors coming out of washington with this. the republicans had to know after voting for the earmark ban that their earmarks were going to come out in this legislation. god bless jim demint for pulling this stunt this afternoon, it worked. but, erick, this is probably a naive question, but whe ....
That trillion would better be invested in the private sector. you want to pick winners and loser using the government. i don t think that s the right way to go. can we go to the omnibus bill? there s six what is it, 6,000 earmarks representing an estimated 8 billion in spending. of course, the republicans are now saying, we re not going to pass this. this is a bill that has to fund the government so they can keep running. so how can republican senators object to a bill that they floated themselves with earmarks? two things. one, if they have earmarks, that they secretly negotiate and it looks like they did, they ought to be ashamed and they re hypocrites. whether it s mcconnell or whoever, that s hypocritical in the extreme and we want to call them out on it. they took an earmark ban in the caucus. they need to stick with. so shame on them who have done it and we re going to call them out on it and we are. we re doing it here on national tv. we re also doing it in e-mail ....
I don t think that s the right way to go. can we go to the omnibus bill? there s six what is it, 6,000 earmarks representing an estimated 8 billion in spending. of course, the republicans are now saying, we re not going to pass this. this is a bill that has to fund the government so they can keep running. so how can republican senators object to a bill that they floated themselves with earmarks? two things. one, if they have earmarks, that they secretly negotiate and it looks like they did, they ought to be ashamed and they re hypocrites. whether it s mcconnell or whoever, that s hypocritical in the extreme and we want to call them out on it. they took an earmark ban in the caucus. they need to stick with. so shame on them who have done it and we re going to call them out on it and we are. we re doing it here on national tv. we re also doing it in e-mail communication to our members. it is hypocritical. now, with demint demanding everything be read, i think he ....
That s why they gave congress the power of the purse. but the problem here is hypocrisy and hypocrisy mostly with my friends in the republican party who have campaigned against earmarks and mitch mcconnell, the republican senate leader, he s against this bill but he s put earmarks into the bill. he s the guy who s carried so much pork he s probably got trick nose is by now and it s the hypocrisy people get fid up by. mcconnell does have earmarks in this bill himself, so do a lot of other republicans. oh, absolutely. you know, in fact i completely agree with paul on this issue. the republicans in the senate in particular, they ve pounded on their chests they weren t going to have an earmark ban until jim demint and senator coburn from oklahoma got enough votes with the new guys coming in to force the issue. so they said, okay, okay, okay, we ll lead on this and ban earmarks from the republican conference, wink-wink, nod-nod, we ll go to our democratic friends and ask them to put it ....
You know, in fact i completely agree with paul on this issue. the republicans in the senate in particular, they ve pounded on their chests they weren t going to have an earmark ban until jim demint and senator coburn from oklahoma got enough votes with the new guys coming in to force the issue. so they said, okay, okay, okay, we ll lead on this and ban earmarks from the republican conference, wink-wink, nod-nod, we ll go to our democratic friends and ask them to put it in for us. that s exactly what s happening. look at the guys from mississippi, both of whom not fans of the earmarks ban, have loaded up mississippi with earmarks. i get why democrats would push for this money while they still can, earmarks are technically a drop in the bucket, but what message does this send about the democratic party s fiscal discipline? the democratic party is the party that balanced the budget the last time it was balanced. the republicans know as much about balancing a budget as my dog does abou ....