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washingtonpost.com - 3/3/2009

Agape With Wrath

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Apparently John McCain was operating under a 120-day cooling-off period.

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Political Animal:  Department of Pots and Kettles

Think Progress:  McCain fumes over 9,000 earmarks in omnibus budget: ‘If it seems like I’m angry, it’s because I am.’

Notes From a Grumpy Old Man:  9000 Earmarks, Colorado: We Try Harder

Daily Kos:  John McCain: Put Up Or Shut up

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Department of Pots and Kettles
Political Animal — ... in the omnibus bill.) It's one of the reasons I find Republican hyperventilating over the earmarks more than a little disingenuous. McCain was ranting on the floor yesterday, blaming President Obama for earmarks McCain's fellow senators stuffed into the bill. Perhaps, before McCain castigates the White House, he can spend some time talking to his own Republican colleagues about their notion of fiscal responsibility. He can start with his fellow Arizonan, Sen. Jon Kyl (R). It was Kyl who ...

McCain fumes over 9,000 earmarks in omnibus budget: ‘If it seems like I’m angry, it’s because I am.’
Think Progress — ... any earmarks himself, said, “I want to freely acknowledge that Republicans were guilty of this as well.” Indeed, Republican leader Mitch McConell “ ...

9000 Earmarks, Colorado: We Try Harder
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — David Brooks Dana Millbank Eugene Robinson "Nine thousand earmarks, billions and billions of dollars of unneeded and wasteful spending, and the president's budget person says, 'This is last year's business. We want to just move on.' That's insulting to the American people. . . . Does that mean that last year's president will sign this pork-barrel bill?" - John McCain ...

John McCain: Put Up Or Shut up
Daily Kos — John McCain needs to do two things: accept that he lost was slaughtered on November 4th, and either put up or shut up. In recent days he's taken to the Senate floor to whine about President Obama and earmarks: President Obama said during the debate in Oxford, Mississippi, quote, 'We need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure we're not spending money unwisely' ... So much -- so much -- for the promise of 'change.' Well, during that same presidential campaign, McCain vowed that ...