People who have been following John McCain's presidential campaign
closely (which is, let's face it, practically nobody) have noticed
that the Senator is determined to fight against Congressional earmarks
this year.
In fact, just last week he blamed earmarks for not just the collapse
of the I-35W bridge in Minnesota, but also the devastation caused by
Hurricane Katrina.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080430/ap_on_el_pr/mccain
For real.
Funny story though - turns out that it's not actually the earmarks
McCain object to, it's the process.
According to Think Progress:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/05/01/mccain-earmark-hospi/
Yesterday, McCain held a health care event at the Lehigh Valley
Hospital in Allentown, PA.
While there he met Mary, a woman with ovarian cancer who was treated
"in a $80 million clinical trial program funded by an earmark."
Confronted with this "human face of earmark spending," McCain again
backed away from his campaign rhetoric:
McCain praised the woman's treatment and later said some earmarks were
clearly worthy.
"It's the process I object to," McCain told re****ters.
"We need to start over from scratch." (...)
"When you earmark in the middle of the night you have no budgetary
constraints," he said.
So there you have it - John McCain will fight to his last breath to
eliminate earmarks that cost the U.S. billions of dollars!
Except for earmarks which saved the lives of people he actually has to
meet face to face.
And that, my friends, is called "having the courage of your
convictions."
By EarlG
Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
Harry
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