Oink!, Oink!
Written by Benaiah on March 14th, 2008Not surprisingly but the Senate voted yesterday against Senator DeMint’s (R, SC) amendment for a 1 year moratorium on earmarks. Here are the Republican swine who voted against the amendment. Feel free to give them a call at (202) 224-3121.
Bennett (UT)
Domenici (NM)
Smith, G. (OR)
Bond (MO)
Gregg (NH)
Snowe (ME)
Brownback (KS)
Hagel (NE)
Specter (PA)
Bunning (KY)
Hatch (UT)
Stevens (AK)
Cochran (MS)
Hutchinson (TX)
Vitter (LA)
Coleman (MN)
Lugar (IN)
Voinovich (OH)
Collins (ME)
Murkowski (AK)
Warner (VA)
Craig (ID)
Roberts (KS)
Wicker (MS)
Crapo (ID)
Shelby (AL)
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PM
I wonder what Larry Craig’s objection was? Maybe because his earmark for $1,000,000.00 ful-servicel private stalls to be installed at the Minneapolis Airport fell through….
15
PM
Disappointed in Wicker, Vitter, Brownback, and Hagel.
15
PM
Honestly none of those names surprise me. I had written them all off as RINOs years ago. I am sort of surprised more GOP Senators hadn’t refused to vote for the amendment. What do they have to lose, their pride?
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PM
Domenici, Brownback, Hagel, Warner, and Craig will be gone soon. I think they have all announced their retirements.
17
PM
When such a large number of the GOP Senate body (26/49) shows that it is directly opposed to the core conservative tenants of small government and small government why would anyone be surprised when we can’t reduce the size of government.
How is conservative legislation ever supposed to get passed such a determined majority of liberals and Democrats unless republicans are willing to vote out the RINOs, even at the risk of losing a seat and the majority (which they did nothing with anyway).