The teabagging revolution is underway, not.

[Ted_White]

Rand Paul vows to fight for more earmark and pork spending.

Father and son, age 47, have different styles. Asked what he wanted to do in Washington in a Wednesday morning television interview, the senator-elect said that his kids were hoping to meet the Obama girls. He has made other concessions to the mainstream. He now avoids his dad’s talk of shuttering the Federal Reserve and abolishing the income tax. In a bigger shift from his campaign pledge to end earmarks, he tells me that they are a bad “symbol” of easy spending but that he will fight for Kentucky’s share of earmarks and federal pork, as long as it’s doled out transparently at the committee level and not parachuted in in the dead of night. “I will advocate for Kentucky’s interests,” he says.
http://thinkprogress.org/2010/11/08/paul-earmarks-pledg/


This comes after his anti-earmarking pledge:

Rand Paul has made a ban on wasteful earmark spending in Washington D.C. one of the key points of his campaign. He has supported Sen. Jim DeMint’s vocal support for an earmark ban and he supports news that House Democrats are even coming around on the idea of a partial ban.

“The Tea Party movement is an effort to get government under control,” Rand said. “I’m running to represent Kentuckians and to dismantle the culture of professional politicians in Washington. Leadership isn’t photo-ops with oversized fake cardboard checks. That kind of thinking is bankrupting our nation. Senator DeMint understands that and has taken action to stop it.”
http://www.randpaul2010.com/2010/03/earmark-ban-coming/

Wow, some revolution teabaggers have going on.

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. But it WILL be televised. nt

[arcane1]

2. Earmarks are only "wasteful" if they are NOT spent in his state.

Will those who voted for him figure it out? Unlikely, since they'll be counting the tax dollars pouring into their state.

Fools.

[SoCalDem]

3. That's the republican way...

and to some extent ALL politicians do this

I would prefer that each state get a set amount of money for each congress, based on their population... a discretionary lump-sum for their senators/congresspeople to determine..and then let the states settle the scores at election time..

This would make legislating easier, since pork would be forbidden.

[Angry Dragon]

4. The boy lies on his job application and does not get fired??

I guess it is okay for everyone else in this country
to lie on their job application and keep their job.
Fair is fair.

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. So he got a talk?

No seriously, he had to.

And he is now onto Republican Modus Operandi.

It is only bad when the other one does it.

Hey Tea Partiers, YOU'VE BEEN HAD!

[caty]

6. Do you think that

the repubs have realized yet that teabaggers are NOT repubs? They are the tea party. They are not going to cooperate with the repubs. I see the repubs in for a bumpier ride than the Dems the next two years. Let's just hope we can get our message out so that more of them can't be voted in next term and we can get back and keep the majority in government.