Rep. John Murtha - and Pork
Published Fri, May 25 2007 12:57 PM
Technorati Tags: News and Politics, Corruption
Citizens Against Government Waste named Rep. John Murtha the "Porker of the Month". I'm sure he deserves this title, but I noticed something in their article that I thought should be expanded upon...
Washington, D.C. - Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) today named Representative John Murtha (D-Pa.) the May Porker of the Month for throwing a temper tantrum and threatening his colleagues over a challenge to a $23 million pet project in the Intelligence Authorization Act for fiscal year 2008.
Rep. Murtha became infuriated by Rep. Mike Rogers’ (R-Mich.) motion to challenge his earmark for the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) in Johnstown, Pa. According to The Politico, Rep. Murtha, who is not on the Intelligence Committee but does chair the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, confronted Rep. Rogers on the floor of the House and threatened to remove both any of his earmark requests in the defense appropriations bill and any other earmark “now and forever.” Rep. Rogers responded, “This is not the way we do things here and is that supposed to make me afraid of you?” To which Rep. Murtha arrogantly replied, “That’s the way I do it!”
CAGW named Rep. Murtha "Porker of the Month" for his temper tantrum. Personally, I'd like to see him follow through on his threat.
Wouldn't it be nice if Representatives actually started removing every earmark from every bill, "now and forever"?
I'm glad to see Rep. Rogers standing up against pork, but his angry response doesn't work for me. I think he should have said. "Good. You do that. And while we're at it, let's both remove EVERY earmark from EVERY bill."
It's not going to happen though. What a pity. Earmarks are just another way to encourage the spread of re-distributionist socialism in our Republic.
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