You can't have that. Dems have already reserved the use of it for at least the next decade. Perhaps longer, as I think it will have the same blame shelf life as Bill Clinton, and he's still going strong as a patsy for GOPers.

 

Imagine the blame if either had also been the UK basketball coach.:sssh:

His show has grown consistantly over time and now has more listeners than he ever did.

 

That's all fine and dandy, but it doesn't change the fact that Rush Limbaugh had next to a zero national profile until Bill Clinton appeared on the national scene. The two are invariably joined at the hip, as Limbaugh has successfully mined Americans' suspicions about Clinton and dislike of him for material better than anyone.

 

I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Limbaugh was an indirect Hillary Clinton donor.

Now, I am just the opposite. I hear a pledge like that and I hear politically speak to make my ears feel good and I don't believe a word of it.

Oh I def believe it...McCain has NEVER had an earmark in his tenure as Senator. As a matter of fact he despises earmarks. He has been on record many times as saying he will cut the pork out of the budget.

Oh I def believe it...McCain has NEVER had an earmark in his tenure as Senator. As a matter of fact he despises earmarks. He has been on record many times as saying he will cut the pork out of the budget.

 

Not true. Article today had him receiving an earmark for something in Arizona.

 

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/06/mccain-earmark/

 

In 2006, the senator teamed up with fellow Arizona senator Jon Kyl ® to funnel $10 million toward the University of Arizona for an academic center named after the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist.

 

In 2003, McCain also slipped $14.3 million into a defense appropriations bill to

create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As Roll Call reported in 2003, this project violated McCain’s own anti-pork rhetoric:

 

The only problem is the project to acquire more land near the base was not requested by President Bush or fully authorized by the Senate Armed Services Committee - two of McCain’s criteria for identifying so-called ‘pork.

 

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), a notorious porker, was overjoyed that McCain had joined his side. “One man’s pork is another man’s alternate white meat,” said Stevens. “If he asked for it, we put it in.”

Not true. Article today had him receiving an earmark for something in Arizona.

 

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/01/06/mccain-earmark/

 

In 2006, the senator teamed up with fellow Arizona senator Jon Kyl ® to funnel $10 million toward the University of Arizona for an academic center named after the late Supreme Court Justice William Rehnquist.

 

In 2003, McCain also slipped $14.3 million into a defense appropriations bill to

create a buffer zone around Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. As Roll Call reported in 2003, this project violated McCain’s own anti-pork rhetoric:

 

The only problem is the project to acquire more land near the base was not requested by President Bush or fully authorized by the Senate Armed Services Committee - two of McCain’s criteria for identifying so-called ‘pork.

 

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK), a notorious porker, was overjoyed that McCain had joined his side. “One man’s pork is another man’s alternate white meat,” said Stevens. “If he asked for it, we put it in.”

 

This was addressed on TV last night. McCains not the one who asked for the $ for UofA and he didnt ask for the 14.3 either. But he did not oppose them either....

 

Regardless, I doubt any other Senator has that kind of record when it comes to earmarks.

This was addressed on TV last night. McCains not the one who asked for the $ for UofA and he didnt ask for the 14.3 either. But he did not oppose them either....

 

Regardless, I doubt any other Senator has that kind of record when it comes to earmarks.

Could you please put a link to the argument that he didn't earmark these. I would love to hear the other side of the story.