Though Gov. Palin originally supported the earmark spending on the Ketchikan bridge (“to nowhere) in a political debate, she eventually killed the project, choosing to spend Federal money on other infrastructure programs.
However, Sen. Biden and Sen. Obama voted for funding the Bridge, even when given a second chance by Sen. Tom Coburn, who proposed shifting earmark funds to Katrina relief.
Sen. McCain did not vote on the Coburn Amendment (he was absent that day), though he is on record as opposing the Ketchikan bridge earmark. (His close ally Lindsey Graham voted in favor of sending the money to Katrina victims, unlike most Democrats and Republicans)
Just so you know.
The Gunslinger
From Ann Coulter's latest column:"George Bush is Gary Cooper in the classic western "High Noon." The sheriff is about to leave office when a marauding gang is coming to town. He could leave, but he waits to face the killers as all his friends and all the townspeople, who supported him during his years of keeping them safe, slowly abandon him. In the end, he walks alone to meet the killers, because someone has to.
ReplyDeleteThat's Bush. Name one other person in Washington who would be willing to stand alone if he had to, because someone had to.
OK, there is one, but she's not in Washington yet. Appropriately, at the end of "High Noon," Cooper is surrounded by the last two highwaymen when, suddenly, his wife (Grace Kelly) appears out of nowhere and blows away one of the killers! The aging sheriff is saved by a beautiful, gun-toting woman."
Just love that last line...
Honestly...this got me kind of misted-up.
ReplyDeleteW will get hero status...eventually.
I sure hope he knows that.