Porkulus 1.5 passes the house – $410 billion for projects like blueberry research, crickets, tatoo removal, foot odor research, down the toilet

This joke of bill, is not totally democratic either. 40% of the porkulus projects in this “bill” are from Republicans.

The House passed Porkulus 1.5 — the $410 billion omni-waste spending bill – this afternoon.

The roll call vote is here.

Drink the Kool-Aid and repeat after me: There are no earmarks.

In one of many untold, underhanded maneuvers, the House bill had a measure buried in it that will kill school choice in the rotten public schools of Washington, D.C.

For the children.

Of course.

Fun fact: There were more Democrats who voted against omni-pork than Republicans who voted for it.

15 Pro-pork Republicans who voted for it:

Bono Mack
Brown-Waite, Ginny
Cao
Capito
Castle
Emerson
Gerlach
LoBiondo
McHugh
Miller (MI)
Murphy, Tim
Reichert
Upton
Whitfield
Young (AK)

19 Democrats who voted against it:

Bean
Childers
Cooper
Costa
Donnelly (IN)
Driehaus
Giffords
Hill
Kind
Kratovil
Marshall
Matheson
Minnick
Mitchell
Nye
Peterson
Speier
Tanner
Taylor

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February 25, 2009 · Filed Under Porkulus


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