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John McCain Criticized Earmarks Requested From Sarah Palin
Oliver Willis — Bwahahahaha. 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, McCain’s list of spending that had been approved without the normal budget scrutiny included a $500,000 earmark for a public transportation project in Wasilla. The Arizona senator targeted $1 million in a 2002 ...

McCain had criticized earmarks from Palin
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... Palin as his running mate, touting her as a reformer just like him. McCain has made opposition to pork-barrel spending a central theme of his 2008 campaign. "Earmarking deprives federal agencies of scarce resources, at the whim of individual members of Congress," McCain has said. But records show that Palin -- first as mayor of Wasilla and recently as governor of Alaska -- was far from shy about pursuing tens of millions in earmarks for her town, her region and her state. Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/la-na-earmarks3-2008sep03,0...

There's pork, and there's the whole hog farm
Left I on the News — John McCain's hallmark, criticized here on more than one occasion, is going after "pork" - things he considers wasteful spending. The famous Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere" was one of the largest of such projects (which Sarah Palin was for before she was against). It's cost? $223 million. ...

Wanna Grow, Grow Up to Be, Be a Debater
Hit & Run — ... As for Palin... look, at this point it's shredding McCain's straight talk image whenever someone from his campaign puts on an earpiece and pretends she's a decent VP pick. To wit: ...

Palin on McCain's "pork list"
Daily Kos — Now this is embarrassing. It seems that John McCain's soulmate has also made his anti-earmark "pork list". 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. Oops. But hey, it's not like Palin was the first Wasilla mayor to go after federal money, right? Wasilla had received few if any earmarks before Palin became mayor. She actively sought federal funds -- a campaign that began to ...

A bad week for John McCain
culturekitchen - fresh dissent served daily — ... to his problems. Two conservative "pundits" slam McCain's Palin decision: Meanwhile, seems Palin attends a church that embraces anti-Semitism. Certainly this deserves as much coverage as Bush's pastor endorsing Obama, and McCain's "spiritual guide" (McCain's words)Hagee's anti-Semitism. Seems McCain/Palin has far more pastor problems than Obama. Then there is the fact that McCain himself slammed Palin for her addiction to pork. Then there is the whole political baggage Palin ...

Remainders: Sarah's speech
Jonathan Martin's Blog — Drudge fans the flames of media backlash. McCain criticized Palin's earmark requests. Alex Burns looks at McCain's actuarial chance of dying. Harris and Frerking look at whether the sexist line has been crossed. Mahtesian points to the upside of Palin's problems: She's just like us! (Sort of.) Schmidt picks a war with the National Enquirer. Biden levels the Hunt for Red October charge at Thompson. Yuval Levin cries shame. David Kirkpatrick sees McCain's ...

Obama Takes Aim at Palin's Record
Taylor Marsh — ... The earmarks business is a perfect target, and absolutely relevant because of the laughable-on-it’s-face "maverick reformers" thing. The obvious fact is, there are some gaping holes in the armor of this supposedly dynamic duo and it shouldn’t be too difficult hit them where it hurts. Hopefully this is just the beginning. ...