From MSNBC:Today Sen. John McCain failed in his effort to strip thousands on earmarks from a government funding bill moving through Congress. His amendment would also have reduced the funding for several government departments to last year's lower spending levels.
His amendment failed 63-32, with a simple majority needed for passage. Only two Democrats voted with McCain: Evan Bayh and Claire McCaskill.
There were eight Republicans who voted against McCain, thereby supporting the earmarks and the higher levels of spending. All but one of those Republicans (Snowe) sit on the Senate Appropriations Committee. That panel is tasked with writing the spending bills and are best positioned to add earmarks. Those GOP committee members voting against McCain were Bennett, Bond, Cochran, Collins, Murkowski, Shelby and Specter.
From Wonkette:
You know what John McCain hates, even more than trollops and socialism? EARMARKS, which generally constitute a very small amount of any budget bill. Yesterday he threw a fit on the Senate floor about how Barack Obama did not hate earmarks enough, and then he introduced an amendment to banish all earmarks from the government funding bill now making its way through Congress. That amendment failed, of course.
Earmarks make up a whole $7.7 billion worth of the $410 billion omnibus spending bill. Why, that’s 1.9 percent of the total! WASTEY, WASTEY.
Eight Republicans, seven of whom sit on the Senate Appropriations Committee and who have been terribly corrupted by the seduction powers of earmarks, voted against the McCain amendment.
And this, in a nutshell, is why Meghan McCain can’t get laid.
If you aren't familiar with that reference about the pampered, entitled Ms. McCain, click here.
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