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Pelosi, earmarks, Byrd, Pork

Ok I must be in an unusually giddy mood. I reading all kinds of stupid Democrat shit and I can’t help laughing and smiling.
The next two years will be fun.
I wish I had a team if bloggers working with me, like some blogs have to help me add stuff to this site.
I saw this headline (Nancy Pelosi: Identify Earmarks), it made me laugh, because there are Democrats and liberals out there I bet saying “good for her”, catch those corrupt Republicans,” Totally ignoring the long history of Democrat thievery, pork and “money in freezer” politics.
When I saw this headline, the first thing I think of Robert “KKK” Byrd, the King of pork.
Oversight my ass, who are you Democrats trying to sucker?
The Negro will not be bamboozled!

FIRST CHECK THIS OUT

Speaker-to-be is no stranger to earmarking
Rep. Nancy Pelosi has promised to change the controversial practice, a process she’s celebrated using for her district.
By Noam N. Levey and Richard Simon, Times Staff Writers

WASHINGTON — When the House passed a massive spending bill last November, Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi made sure her constituents knew what they were getting.

“Pelosi Secures $115 Million for San Francisco Transportation, Housing, Science and Arts,” she proclaimed in a news release.

It wasn’t an unusual announcement. Like many of her colleagues in Congress, Pelosi for years has celebrated bringing home the bacon to her district.

But now — as Pelosi prepares to take over the House after an election in which scandal helped drive Republicans from power — she is promising changes to the controversial practice of earmarking.

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The King of Pork, DEMOCRAT Robert Byrd from the website: Citizens Against Government Waste

They call me ‘The Pork King,’ they don’t know how much I enjoy it.” - Sen. Robert Byrd

After he secured $97 million in fiscal 1999, Sen. Robert C. Byrd (D-W. Va.) became the first person in CAGW’s Congressional Pig Book history (since 1991) to help obtain more than $1 billion in pork for his state. In honor of this fiscal incontinence, we dedicate this page to Senator Byrd.

Sen. Byrd Pork Tally

Projects Named For Senator Byrd
   Sen. Byrd has set a new standard for taxpayer-funded narcissism by convincing the West Virginia Legislature to erect a statue of himself in the state Capitol. The statue’s completion violates state law prohibiting statues of government officials until they have been dead for half a century.

Byrd’s statue is currently housed in the Capitol Rotunda, as shown in the picture, and it is said if you stand under the statue the senator’s hand points directly at your pockets.

Sen. Byrd sometimes claims that he is in favor of fiscal restraint. However, the senator currently has more than 30 public works named after him - seriously undermining his pleas for budget responsibility.

The projects include a Robert C. Byrd Locks and Dam , Byrd Aerospace Tech. Center, Robert C. Byrd Green Bank Telescope , Byrd Industrial Park, and various other projects proving how he really sees government coffers.

Other Byrd Projects
Robert C. Byrd Drive, from Beckley to Sophia (Byrd’s hometown)
Robert C. Byrd National Technology Transfer Center at Wheeling Jesuit University
Robert C. Byrd Highway
Robert C. Byrd Federal Correctional Institution
Robert C. Byrd High School
Robert C. Byrd Freeway
Robert C. Byrd Center for Hospitality and Tourism
Robert C. Byrd Science Center
Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center of West Virginia
Robert C. Byrd Cancer Research Center
Robert C. Byrd Technology Center at Alderson-Broaddus College
Robert C. Byrd Hardwood Technologies Center, near Princeton
Robert C. Byrd Bridge between Huntington and Chesapeake, Ohio
Robert C. Byrd addition to the lodge at Oglebay Park, Wheeling
Robert C. Byrd Community Center, Pine Grove
Robert C. Byrd Honors Scholarships
Robert C. Byrd Expressway, U.S. 52 near Weirton
Robert C. Byrd Institute in Charleston
Robert C. Byrd Institute for Advanced Flexible Manufacturing
Robert C. Byrd Visitor Center at Harpers Ferry National Historic Park
Robert C. Byrd Federal Courthouse
Robert C. Byrd Academic and Technology Center
Robert C. Byrd United Technical Center
Robert C. Byrd Federal Building (there are two)
Robert C. Byrd Hilltop Office Complex
Robert C. Byrd Library and Robert C. Byrd Learning Resource Center
Robert C. Byrd Rural Health Center
Robert C. Byrd Clinical Addition to the veteran’s hospital in Huntington
Robert C. Byrd Industrial Park, Hardy County
Robert C. Byrd Scholastic Recognition Award
Robert C. Byrd Community Center in the naval station, Sugar Grove
Robert C. Byrd Clinic at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine
Robert C. Byrd Biotechnology Science Center at Marshall University

Words from the King

“Having the title [of Appropriations chairman] is fine, but not having the money is sobering.”

Prior to the vote on President Bush’s tax cut in 2001, Byrd made one last attempt to blackmail his fellow senators with pork from the well of the Senate: “Let me say to my colleagues, if you vote for this budget conference report, don’t come to the appropriations watering hole. It is not that I would not love to help you, but you are going to make it impossible.” He also sent his colleagues a letter reiterating his threats.

“One man’s pork is another man’s job. Pork has been good investment in West Virginia. You can look around and see what I’ve done.” Remarks made March 15, 2001 during Senate floor debate.

“West Virginia has always had four friends,” Byrd said, “God Almighty, Sears Roebuck, Carter’s Liver Pills, and Robert C. Byrd.”

“It is often overlooked that as chairman of the Appropriations Committee, I was instrumental in assisting all of the states in the union with mass transit, highways, waterways, sewerage, education ” he said. “I worked to serve the national interests. Of course West Virginia, as one of the 50 states, benefited, but few states have needed more help.”

“When I was a member of the West Virginia House of Delegates 51 years ago, West Virginia had four miles of divided highway,” he said. “Four miles.” Today the state has about 37,000 miles of highway.

Given CAGW’s long history of chronicling and criticizing Byrd’s prolific spending, CAGW was not surprised when he contemptuously referred to the group as “a bunch of peckerwoods” on National Public Radio in the summer of 2001. Remember, this is the same man who said “you might as well slap my wife as take away my highway money.” That must be especially true regarding the Robert C. Byrd Highway.

In an interview with George magazine, December/January 2001, about loan guarantees for steel companies, Sen. Byrd claimed that “he has no apologies to make” to the American people for the more than $1 billion in taxpayer money he has wasted. And said, “Run me over, that’s all right, but tell the good speaker that I’m not dropping anything.”