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McCain vs Palin
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — The last shred of an argument the McCain goons have for Palin is that she is a good government reformer. And yet: Three times in recent years, the Arizona senator's lists of 'objectionable' pork spending have included earmarks requested by his new running mate. Sure, they vetted her. ...

More on Palin and Earmarks
Outside The Beltway | OTB — ... It appears that while Sarah Palin was busy hiring lobbyists to get Congress to provide earmarks to the small town of Wasilla, John McCain was fighting her earmarks . For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny. He’s even gone so far as to publish “pork lists” detailing these financial favors. Three times in recent years, McCain’s catalogs of “objectionable” ...

McCain Was Against Palin Before He Was For Her
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... That brings us, again, to Alaska governor Sarah Palin. Long before McCain focused the national spotlight on Palin as his Veep pick, he was making her famous as a dedicated feeder at the pork barrel trough. As the Chicago Tribune details: ...

Amygdala — HOW TO BE A MAVERICK. Soulemateyness: [...] Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time -- Sarah Palin. [...] This year, Palin, who has been governor for nearly 22 months, defended earmarking as a vital part of the legislative system. "The federal budget, in its various manifestations, is incredibly important to us, and congressional earmarks are one aspect of this relationship," she wrote in a newspaper column. In 2001, ...

How You Know They Didn’t Vet
ArchPundit — There’s actually a defense of this story WASILLA, ALASKA - For much of his long career in Washington, John McCain has been throwing darts at the special spending system known as earmarking, through which powerful members of Congress can deliver federal cash for pet projects back home with little or no public scrutiny. He’s even gone so far as to publish “pork lists” detailing these financial favors. Three times in recent years, McCain’s catalogs of “objectionable” spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska ...

McCain Once Criticized Palin-linked Earmarks
PoliBlog: A Rough Draft of my Thoughts — Via the Chicago Tribune: McCain had criticized earmarks from Palin Three times in recent years, McCain’s catalogs of “objectionable” spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time — Sarah Palin. Now, McCain, the likely Republican presidential nominee, has chosen Palin as his running mate, touting her as a reformer just like him. [...] In 2001, McCain’s list of spending that had ...

Sarah Palin: Earmark Queen Of The Earmark State
Wonk Room — ... Some of these earmarks drew the scorn of Senator John McCain. The LA Time reports that, “three times in recent years, McCain’s catalogs of ‘objectionable’ spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska town, requested by its mayor at the time — Sarah Palin.” ...

On A New School Year, Or, The Sarah Palin Drinking Game
Washblog - Diaries — ... having to wait for the boat.) See if you can guess which 2006 candidate for Governor of Alaska was all for the earmarks that would make The Bridge To Nowhere possible? (Hint: It rhymes with Parah Salin.) She’s so big on earmarks, in fact, that in 2001 and 2002 the Mayor of Wasilla was targeted for her love of pork by a national crusader who was trying to end the practice. Know who it was? Wait for it...wait...OK, are you ready? John McCain said Sarah Palin was a pork abuser—two years in a row. Guess which candidate for Vice President is not only ...

"I will make them famous"
The Anonymous Liberal — John McCain, in his acceptance speech tonight: I've fought the big spenders in both parties, who waste your money on things you neither need nor want, and the first big-spending pork-barrel earmark bill that comes across my desk, I will veto it. I will make them famous, and you will know their names. You will know their names.I guess one of the ways to make them famous is to choose them to be your running mate: Three times in recent years, McCain's catalogs of "objectionable" spending have included earmarks for this small Alaska ...

Who is Sarah Palin?
The Moderate Voice — ... of that comment from the non-partisan factcheck.org. I guess she was for it before she was against it. We’ve learned that she’s against earmarks, except for when she’s hiring lobbyists to push for them, or personally traveling to Washington to beg for them. You’d think it would have been a little embarrassing for the campaign to admit that some of Palin’s Wasilla earmarks (which amounted to some $27 million during her tenure as mayor) had even made it onto McCain’s annual lists of outrageous pork-barrel projects, but they simply ignored that ...

Palin's Pork Problem
Tammy Bruce — ... for her changed position on earmarks. As Mayor and Governor she obtained millions from Washington. Gasp!--she even hired a lobbyist. Just this year she sent a proposal to Sen. Ted Stevens for 31 earmarks totaling $197 million---more, per person, than any other state. McCain is totally opposed to earmarks characterizing them as favors doled out with scant oversight. He included earmarks for Wasilla during the time Palin was Mayor in one of his lists critical of spending without oversight. ...

FNS: Davis Defends Palin’s Massive Earmarks
Crooks and Liars — ... –think of how much better our infrastructure would be here in Cali, if we didn’t have states like Alaska sucking us dry).  I don’t think that there should be that much focus on it other than to point out that Palin herself was named THREE TIMES by none other than McCain as a Pork Barrel Princess. ...