The Discerning Texan
All that is necessary for evil to triumph, is for good men to do nothing.
-- Edmund Burke
-- Edmund Burke
Friday, August 03, 2007
Murtha is Numero Uno--by far--in Earmarks
Is there anything more hypocritical or disgusting as Mr. Surrender getting over $150 Million in Defense (and other) pork for his district this year? Anything???
Murtha, the defense industry’s darling, has been known throughout his tenure on the defense panel to shell out a large number of earmarks. His biggest earmark in the bill is $23 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC), a move that sparked a fierce fight with Rep. Todd Tiahrt (R-Kan.), who earlier this year voted in a private meeting to strip Murtha’s earmark.
The Bush administration requested $16 million to shut down the center, which is in Murtha’s district, because it replicated the work of a similar center.
Murtha’s second highest earmark is for $15 million for a military molecular medicine initiative.
Labels: Defeatocrats, Democrat Sabotage, Earmarks, John Murtha, Pork, Surrender Caucus
