An Earmark Is An Earmark Is An Earmark
Prediction: No matter what the incoming GOP majority has said and wants us to believe, the number and dollar value of earmarks in the next Congress will be at least as great, and probably more, than...
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Federal Spending is More Popular than the Tea Party Wants You to Believe
My column from today's Roll Call is the ultimate contrarian argument: I say we'll end the year realizing that federal spending is VERY popular.Popularity of Federal Spending Will Be Realized in 2011By...
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America Realizes It Likes Federal Spending After All
As I explain in my column published in today's Roll Call, the next few months should be a pretty humbling experience for all those on Capital Hill who have been insisting that fedreal spending is the...
View ArticleFederal Spending Is VERY Popular: Episode 1
As I said back in June, in spite of all of the discussion about the need to cut federal spending, the gospel truth is that it's VERY popular and cutting anything -- including the always denigrated...
View ArticleFederal Spending Is VERY Popular. Episode 2: Paul Ryan Is A Hypocrite
How do you oppose the stimulus bill but demand that some of the money you didn't ant the government to spend be spent in your district? As Michael Grunwald explains over at Swampland, just ask House...
View ArticleFederal Spending Is VERY Popular: Episode 3: Medical Research
According to this Roll Call story by Kate Ackley, a substantial, bipartisan majority of voters want more taxpayer money spent on medical research. The money quote is from pollster John Zogby:“In this...
View ArticleFederal Spending Is Very Popular: Episode 4
The ever-vigilant CG&G alum Bruce Bartlett sent this poll done for the National Treasury Employees Union that demonstrates yet again why cutting federal spending is always...and always will be..so...
View ArticleFederal Spending Is VERY Popular: Episode 5: There's No Majority For Cutting...
Question 6 of this latest poll from Ipsos Public Affairs tells you all you need to know: No matter which political party the respondents identify with, there's no majority for cutting any of the major...
View ArticleFederal Spending Is VERY Popular. Episode 6: Rand Paul Agrees With Paul...
Take a close look at the snippet of the transcript below from yesterday's segment on ABC's This Week (hat tip to TPM). It's not often that you see or hear tea partier Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and Paul...
View ArticleFederal Spending is VERY Popular. Episode 7: Didn't George Allen Used To Say...
Question: Is it really possible to look at this story by Jonathan Weisman from yesterday's The New York Times without shrieking?Former Virginia Governor and Senator George Allen, the Republican who's...
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