GOP takes care of Zell for taking care of Kerry

[Khephra]

GOP takes care of Zell for taking care of Kerry
Rebel Ga. Democrat gets his pet projects paid for in approps

By Alexander Bolton

The Republicans are making sure that Sen. Zell Miller, who launched a withering attack on presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry last month, gets his pet projects paid for in appropriations legislation.

Miller, the Georgia Democrat who was the keynote speaker at the GOP convention in New York and who alienated his party by excoriating Kerry, has been told not to worry about losing his earmarks in the new fiscal year, which begins Friday.

The week that Congress returned after the GOP convention, Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) grabbed Miller’s arm outside the Senate chamber and assured him, “Don’t worry about appropriations, I’ve already put that stuff of yours in there.”

The New Mexico Republican is chairman of the Appropriations Energy and Water Subcommittee, a panel that small-government advocacy groups say doles out far more pet projects than most other spending subcommittees.

http://www.thehill.com/news/092904/miller.aspx

[4morewars]

1. There's a word for that.......

hmmmmmmmm, what was it?

Oh Yeah !!!! WHORE

[AlCzervik]

6. might as well have been money on the nightstand

i am so sick of everything, i swear to God. Is this stuff, all of it, happening more now or do we just hear about about more?

[4morewars]

10. I think many of us....

are more aware right now. I have always been politically aware, but let's face it, things have been pretty good for a while (pre *bush)
I also don't remember it being this ugly, maybe during Viet Nam, but i was a kid so I'm not sure. I asked some of the seniors at the Kerry office about it, and they said they haven't seen it this bad in their lifetimes either.
Get away for a day or two if you can, in the woods, no radio, no TV. I'm hoping to do just that this weekend, because I have a feeling it's going to be a rough month ahead.

[AlCzervik]

12. Thanks! I'm going away next week for a short

family trip to New Mexico to the internationial hot air balloon show, i cannot wait to get away from all of it for a few days.

[Eye and Monkey]

13. Hot Air Balloon? New Mexico? Better make sure Domenici's not appearing.

[AlCzervik]

14. please don't crush my enthusiasim

besides my friend who lives there that we will be staying with tells me he is not liked by most round those parts.

[Eye and Monkey]

16. You could phone Domenici's office - tell them you wouldn't want Pete -

associated with a bunch of hot air. Tell them it would look bad, and the librul media would have a field day making fun of him. That should cover your bases and assure you a "get-away".

Call it "an exercise in pollution prevention".

[Charlie Brown]

2. I wonder what kind of pay-offs

McCain and Ahnold are getting for jumping on board with the fundie right.

[Ksec]

3. Zell will have to live with his treason until his death . His family also

Thats a pretty good punishment for what hes done.

[CarolynEC]

4. Yep. Those Republicans sure do spend our tax dollars responsibly.

It's not a coincidence that the economy goes down the shitter every time the GOP is in control. The GOP didn't invent fiscal incompetence. But they've certainly elevated it to an artform.

[elperromagico]

5. Pork for a pig. How appropriate.

:D

[farmbo]

7. Thirty pieces of silver...

Blood money for for a deranged, pathetic Judas.

[gumby]

8. I hope Zell has nightmares every night

of being pelted by zillions of spitballs thrown by zillions of zombie spitball throwers. Bah!

[Fridays Child]

9. So Zell got a reach-around, huh?

[4morewars]

11. OUCH !!!!

[tom_paine]

15. You know, people used to be ASHAMED of this kind of quid pro quo

They still did it, but less of it, and hid it.

Now, My God, it is right out in the open.

They certainly have pushed back the envelope of shame a bit, eh?

[progressivebydesign]

17. The turncoat is being feted as some David Horowitz thing in the tropics.

He's the only "democrat" amongst the pool.. including the illustrious Michelle Malkin, who's only credentials appear to be being born female and openly supporting GOP causes.

[despairing optimist]

18. Judas gets his 30 pieces of silver

Take heart. We know how *that* story ended. Bye, Judas.