Mitch McConnell - King of the Hypocrites

[Avalux]

"Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents...then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan." ~Abraham Lincoln

"Our ideas would have saved billions of taxpayer dollars. Unfortunately, every one was turned aside," ~Mitch McConnell said on the Senate floor yesterday.

Barrasso (4 earmarks, $2.7 million)
Bayh (4 earmarks, $1.2 million)
Bennett (23 earmarks, $18 million)
Brownback (21 earmaks, $12 million)
Bunning (5 earmarks, $735,000)
Burr (3 earmarks, $1.3 million)
Chambliss (7 earmarks, $4.3 million)
Collins (1 earmark, $380,000)
Corker (1 earmark, $760,000)
Cornyn (5 earmarks, $2.5 million)
Crapo (1 earmark, $100,000)
Enzi (5 earmarks, $1.7 million)
Graham (14 earmarks, $9.5 million)
Grassley (8 earmarks, $350,000)
Gregg (19 earmarks, $10 million)
Hatch (7 earmarks, $700,000)
Hutchison (35 earmarks, $9.9 million)
Inhofe (34 earmarks, $53 million)
Isakson (2 earmarks, $1.4 million)
Kyl (3 earmarks, $5 million)
Lugar (10 earmarks, $3.3 million)
Martinez (8 earmarks, $18.8 million)
McConnell (36 earmarks, $51 million)
Roberts (11 earmarks, $2.2 million)
Sessions (12 earmarks, $4.3 million)
Thune (6 earmarks, $4.3 million)
Vitter (16 earmarks, $4 million)
Voinovich (6 earmarks, $13.5 million)

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/11/1832273.aspx

:rofl:

[myrna minx]

1. They really have no shame. n/t

[Avalux]

2. Shameless self-kick - KO covering now. n/t

[alstephenson]

3. Republican earmarks = worthy projects

Democratic earmarks = pork

Hypocrisy to the nth degree.