{"id":197496,"date":"2008-01-29T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-30T03:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/29\/bushs-phoney-war-on-earmarks\/"},"modified":"2008-01-29T22:54:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-30T03:54:00","slug":"bushs-phoney-war-on-earmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/01\/29\/bushs-phoney-war-on-earmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush&#8217;s Phoney War on Earmarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Republicans were in power, he never batted an eyelash at earmarks, which are something like &frac34;% of the budget, but now he&#8217;s decided <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/01\/28\/AR2008012803272.html?hpid=topnews\">it&#8217;s a good time to go to war against them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Oh&#8230;me bad&#8230;He&#8217;s thinking that <span style=\"font-weight:bold;\">NEXT<\/span> fiscal year is a good time to start this &#8220;war on earmarks&#8221;, so he&#8217;s just &#8220;announcing&#8221; them at this SOTU speach.<\/p>\n<p>Even the Republicans are calling weak:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But if he was seeking to placate the fiercest foes of earmarking, he failed. Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) called Bush&#8217;s plan &#8220;weak.&#8221; Thomas A. Schatz, president of the conservative Citizens Against Government Waste, labeled it &#8220;fiscal snake oil.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, I guess it meats steroids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Republicans were in power, he never batted an eyelash at earmarks, which are something like &frac34;% of the budget, but now he&#8217;s decided it&#8217;s a good time to go to war against them. Oh&#8230;me bad&#8230;He&#8217;s thinking that NEXT fiscal year is a good time to start this &#8220;war on earmarks&#8221;, so he&#8217;s just &#8220;announcing&#8221; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,1182,1051,1020,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-george-w-bush","category-hypocrisy","category-legislation","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}