Apparently, earmarks weren’t much of a problem before the Democrats took over Congress, but now things have gotten so out of control that Rep. Dave Reichert has been forced to take the most dire and resolute action the U.S. Constitution affords a duly elected member of the House of Representives: he’s issued a video news release. That’s the sort of bold move we expect from the 419th most powerful man in the House, just weeks after being denied a lucrative seat on the appropriations committee (you know… the seat he needed “now“), and days after his district lost the biggest contract in Air Force history.
Shorter Reichert: I was in favor of earmarks before I was against them, but “I want to be clear… I am in favor of earmarks.”
BONUS: Guess how long it takes for Dave to remind us he was the sheriff?
5 seconds?
I wish they’d just call it “pork” like in the old days. They change the jargon so fast you can’t keep up with it. I have noooo idea what Freedom Fries are called these days, and for all I know, the gooey red stuff you spread on them is now a fruit …
Was watching cable and a commercial ran for “The Capture of the Green River Killer” that is premiering next week. I was thinking, who the fuck really caught him?
What a fucking tool.
More like 9 seconds.
Kind of like Smirky McFlightsuit’s speech today about the economy: we’re okay except fer scandals, 911 911 911 911 911 911, terrorisss, extremisss, and other bad things.
s/
The Pianist
(an actual musician, never to be confused with a bagpipe operator)
This fuck will say anything, eat anything, wear anything, and or fuck anything. to stay a third rate GOP lap dog. What a pathetic bag of shit!
oh and bye bye dink
go Darcie
Sherruff Dave says anybody who has any questions should contact him at his office.
Has anybody asked the Sherruff yet if he is going to return the stolen money he used to win his campaign 2 years ago?
I bet you the bank it was stolen from would like it back…
Yeh the Dems want a trillion more in taxes from the land, for their pork barrel projects and NEW spending..
That’s just exactly what this economy does NOT need right now!
How come this ignorant fuck couldn’t catch a high school drop out (the Green River killer) for seven years?
GS @8
So it is better to keep on dumping trillions in Iraq where we get no return at all?
We could use the trillions we are dumping in Iraq to rebuild our country.
Oh gee, that is right. We are borrowing that money from the nasty Chicoms. No need to pay that back huh?
@8: Gs – data? anything? why have the republican presidents and bush run up record deficits – with republican in charge of congress for much of that time?
HYPOCRITES!
and how much does the war in Iraq cost us every day?
3 billion/day – and what are we getting for it?
Republicans were in charge for 6 years and had record earmarks given out – suddenly earmarks are bad?
I agree we should get rid of earmarks – but the republicans and Reichert, in particular, are amazing hypocrite.
Only last month he was angling and lobbying as hard as possible to be on the appropriations committee to bring home the bacon (earmarks) – suddenly, one month after NOT getting the spot he is against earmarks.
HYPOCRITE!
Do not underestimate the power of Dave Reichert. He could get that contract for Boeing if he wanted to–he just didn’t want to.
For the humor challenged, that’s what people say when they can’t do shit about something but want to pretend they could.
The thing about you demos: You don’t let little things like FACTS get in the way do ya?
Y’see: Everett is NOT in the 8th district. You guys probably even passed the WASL, too, right? (Excepting those of you aren’t from around here, like Philly. You guys probably screwed whatever test they have back in that hellhole.)
Everett is in the SECOND Congressional District. That clown is a demo. Just like the 2 tragic senators and miserable governor.
BTW, there is nothing intrinsically wrong with ‘earmarks.” earmarks don’t appropriate funds or define goals. They just specify the orgnization or area that will receive funds already allocated. Eliminating earmarks won’t save one dollar in spending, is all I’m saying. Personally, I think that the present disclosure rules and (to add a rule) eliminating the president’s ability to earmark would be pretty good.
14 cmiklich
Took me a while to figure out what the fuck you were talking about. Here’s the deal. Dave wants us to re-elect him because he fucking does something instead of nothing in Washington. You see, here in the 8th we think he does nothing. Helping secure a big contract for an important state employer such as Boeing would be a way for him to prove to us that he is not just a useless tool.
But he failed to prove to us that he is not just a useless tool. So, like a useless tool, we will cast him aside.
You got some fact to the contrary? Wanna defend Dave? I thought not.
@8
Well, yes, of course, the Republicans have clearly done a much better job for the past 8 years than the Democrats are likely to do. Right. Certainly.
Wait until NOVEMBER!!!!
John McKay has broken his silence,publishing an article in the Seattle University Law Review, 31SeaUniv.LR264
(you can download a copy at
http://www.seattleweekly.com/PDF/johnmckay.pdf)
“At the moment of the Attorney General’s responses to Senator Feinstein, I knew that my silence about my own forced resignation must end…. In my case, I believe that silence in the face of a lie is a form of complicity; despite my initial belief that it was my duty to leave office quietly, I could not be a part of Alberto Gonazales’ false and meisleading testimony to the Senate….”
Id at 271.
And just remember – this is how they treat their friends, their fellow Republicans! They throw them under the bus the minute they don’t exhibit lock-step loyalty or further usefullness to the neo-con cause.
Is there any wonder why we rather cynically expect that, having abused this portion of the Patriot Act (interim appointment of replacement prosecutors), that they would not also abuse other provisions, such as the wiretaping and data mining authority granted under the act, and similarly use it for political purposes?
You all thought it was so important to pass a stimulus package giving $600 to $1200 per family back, just so you could come right back at em sucking a Trillion in new taxes and spending out of em, and you want to talk about hypocrits?
hahahahahaha
yeh lets talk……
In fact keep telling the American people your taxing and spending proposal!
19 GS
You all thought it was so important to pass a stimulus package giving $600 to $1200 per family back…
By “you all,” I assume you DO mean the president, the Republicans, and the Democrats in Congress, all of whom supported this measure?
I’m also assuming you DON’T mean the Democrats who wanted to extend unemployment benefits, food stamp additions, low-income energy assitance, and the other things the GAO said would do more to stimulate the economy?
I’m also assuming that you think that the Republican push to use the current economic doldrums as a lever to make the Bush tax cuts for the rich permanent would be just a DANDY idea?
Yeah, I’m totally taking your economic ideas seriously.
Barack Obama on McCain flip-flopping over the Bush tax cuts:
“He was right then and he’s wrong now.”
Excellent.
John McKay Who ????
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/20…- i_n_90531.html
Check out the Sheriff’s comment about the tanker deal…..
“John McCain will be the nominee and I will support him, but if John McCain believes that Airbus or EADS is the company for our Air Force tanker program he’s flat-out wrong _ and I’ll tell him that to his face,” said Rep. Dave Reichert, R-Wash.”
Please tell me it isn’t so, the Sheriff will “tell him to his face” Oh my god, what could possible be next? Will the Sheriff send McLame to his room?
I am sure McCain is shaking in fear at the thought.
ould not also abuse other provisions, such as the wiretaping and data mining authority granted under the act, and similarly use it for political purposes?
Yeeeahah…I hit the motherload. I just hit a gold mine of FBI files. Wait that is what I stole last time I was in the White House. Nevermind.
23 – LMAO!!! The pipsqueak Sheriff vs. the old guest of the Hanoi Hilton who flys the french-friendly skies.
No contest.
Well – as long as we are on the topic of republican hypocrisy (Is there any other topic? This is the gift that keeps on giving.)
Here is a little gem on the republican congressman from Eastern Washington – Doc Hastings. Former chair of the “ethics” committe in the house – you know, the one that came down hard on pedophile Mark Foley and corrupt republicans Bob Ney, Dolittle, and Delay. Oh yeah, that’s right Doc closed down the committee and didn’t investigate any of them – but he did have time to call about that nasty John McCay to make sure he was fired – and is now listed as one of the 22 most corrupt members of congress by CREW.
What is really a case of succulent hypocrisy is how Doc is now upset about an “independent” review of ethics cases. Of course – he is one who ignored all the ethics violations while he was the Chair appointed by..Tom DeLay.
Now he is upset because his opponent is citing his lack of ethics and opposition to the ethics bill:
http://georgefearing.com/
Gee – being held accountable is tough!
Asshole @14,
So… there is one of those border fences along district lines, huh? Nobody who works at the Boeing plant in Everett, or who works in the many other businesses that support that business or service their employees… none of these people live in the 8th CD?
Thanks for clearing things up.
Kind of interesting that is Republicans, lead by Dino, arguing for taxing the public to help the Sonics. Guess it’s OK sometimes.
vestigate any of them – but he did have time to call about that nasty John McCay to make sure he was fired – and is now listed as one of the 22 most corrupt members of congress by CREW.
Hahahahahaha You mean DREW (Donks for hahaahaha responsibility hehehehe… I can’t stop…. laughing and hahahahaha ethics in government).
Any group claiming to be an advocate of responsibility or ethics in DC who doesn’t have Hillary as number one is a donk front group. hahahahahhaha
Any group that doesn’t have Hillary as number one is
Davey seemed to have some trouble with the teleprompter. Naturally, he had no clue what he was saying substantively, so getting his inflection down correctly required that he just try to sound grave. That’s what he gained from his years as sheriff–try to sound grave when speaking to the public.
rhp brought up John McKay’s name up above. Do any of you Repubs out there want to badmouth him? Where are you, Piper, Puddy, rightstuff? C’mon, one of you must be willing to criticize one of the last Republicans who actually has some integrity. If the Republican Party had a few more John McKays, the party might not be headed for extinction.
The forgetfulness of the public can be a curse as well as a blessing: “‘The Green River Killer’? What’s he? Some kind of polluter, or something?”
Ha! Haaaah!
re 30: Good point.
re 29: “donk”? Yer stupid….
I wonder if that KC election worker who almost let me vote was a member of CREW???? Ahhh It doesn’t matter. I just want to thank all you liberals for making it possible for dogs to vote . roof roof.
I used to be a Conservative Republican until I saw the rotting gums and insane laugh of Republican presidential candidate, John Mc Cain. He’d not only be there at 3am to answer the beeping red phone — he’d already be awake.
He’s the Manchurian Candidate.
There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off. John McCain is neither.
John McCain is an old, crazy Manchurian Candidate who has been BRAINWASHED to destroy America.
Fear! Fear! What did they plant in old-man McCain’s head?
All his fellow prisoners said not a word — bur McCain denounced them and his country.
Why???
9 “How come this ignorant fuck couldn’t catch a high school drop out (the Green River killer) for seven years?”
Hey, how come we as a nation allowed someone far dumber than Gary Ridgway to break into the Oval Office and spend the last seven years buttfucking the entire country?
35 JBD
election worker who almost let me vote
That’s rich. What happened with stupid GOP operative (like there’s another kind) Jane Balogh (note spelling) was that she attempted to register her dog to vote as a stupid GOP publicity stunt. And, in fact, the opposite of what you all claim is possible happened: election workers spotted her idiotic paw-printed voter registration right away, and, in fact, she has just been sentenced in December 2007 to one year for doing it(http://www.nwcn.com/topstories.....8e8de.html).
Election workers spot false registrations. Violators are prosecuted. The system works. Fuck you.
41 I hope that the Humane Society was able to rescue the poor dog from its clearly abusive and exploitive owner.
Now, anyone want to discuss the subject of Jane Hague’s slap on the wrist with a feather? Any of you get-tough-on-crime Republicans want to speak up?
Mongo love Sheriff Dave. Sheriff only man who ever whip Mongo!
Mongo Reichert’s penis??? Mongo should be proud. Nobody thought Mongo existed!
@ 44
Not a Mel Brooks fan?
Wow, Goldy:
That was a pithy rebuttal. Intelligent. Intellectual. Absolutely your brightest work ever.
But, incorrect. Y’see, the 2ND DISTRICT is not where Reichert is. I stated that clearly.
This ho’seapple was Larsen’s. He and his ilk. That’d be the “surrender first” code pink lefties. Otherwise known as “democrats” (VERY small ‘d’).
5 JBD
election worker who almost let me vote
That’s rich. What happened with stupid GOP operative (like there’s another kind) Jane Balogh (note spelling) was that she attempted to register her dog to vote as a stupid GOP publicity stunt. And, in fact, the opposite of what you all claim is possible happened: election workers spotted her idiotic paw-printed voter registration right away, and, in fact, she has just been sentenced in December 2007 to one year for doing it(http://www.nwcn.com/topstor ies/stories/NW_122707WAB_lowli ghts_KC.5b08e8de.html).
Election workers spot false registrations. Violators are prosecuted. The system works. Fuck you.
Bullshit
The only reason I outed myself. The crooks at KCRE were going to let me off the hook. I guess they didn’t want to make wave know all the dead donks they have registered. roof roof.
Roger Rabbit says:
I wish they’d just call it “pork” like in the old days. They change the jargon so fast you can’t keep up with it. I have noooo idea what Freedom Fries are called these days, and for all I know, the gooey red stuff you spread on them is now a fruit …
And those long green like pickles are what the little kiddies use to learn how to properly use a condom. Yes, our public schools at work.
Ekim says:
GS @8
So it is better to keep on dumping trillions in Iraq where we get no return at all?
03/14/2008 at 4:54 pm
Yep. The trillions are a little bit of a stretch, but hey we are talking to same people who said millions were dying a month so I guess it’s understandable.