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Libs want to talk about the bridge?

Sandhusker

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You libs sure you want to make the bridge an issue?


Although Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice.

Both Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment that would have diverted federal funding for the bridge to repair a Louisiana span badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Senate records show.

And both voted for the final transportation bill that included the $223 million earmark for the Alaska project.

An amendment offered by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Oklahoma, would have stripped the money appropriated to connect the Alaskan coastal city of Ketchikan to its airport on sparsely populated Gravina Island and diverted the money to Louisiana.

But Biden andObama and 80 of their colleagues rejected the measure, an amendment to a massive 2005 transportation bill that funded thousands of projects across the country.

"That is probably the most disturbing element of this and the campaigning on the Bridge to Nowhere," said Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a taxpayer watchdog group. "Because, yes, they had a chance to vote specifically against the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska to redirect the money to people, to bridges and infrastructure damaged by Hurricane Katrina going in to New Orleans, and they chose not to."

The final version passed the Senate 93-1. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has made his opposition to congressional "pork-barrel" spending a cornerstone of his campaign, did not vote on either the Coburn amendment or the final bill.
 
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Anonymous

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The final version passed the Senate 93-1. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has made his opposition to congressional "pork-barrel" spending a cornerstone of his campaign, did not vote on either the Coburn amendment or the final bill.

Business as usual.....Didn't want to upset his buddy Senator Stevens- as he'd screw up the tit for tat good old boy system of D.C that he's been right in the middle of for a Quarter of a Century...... :(
 

Mike

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Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has made his opposition to congressional "pork-barrel" spending a cornerstone of his campaign, did not vote on either the Coburn amendment or the final bill.

Very unusual......and VERY Statesman-Like.

Keeping your word that is. Unlike some on here who just spew $hit on a whim............ :roll:
 

Sandhusker

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Oldtimer said:
The final version passed the Senate 93-1. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has made his opposition to congressional "pork-barrel" spending a cornerstone of his campaign, did not vote on either the Coburn amendment or the final bill.

Business as usual.....Didn't want to upset his buddy Senator Stevens- as he'd screw up the tit for tat good old boy system of D.C that he's been right in the middle of for a Quarter of a Century...... :(

I think you missed the jist of the article, OT. It wasn't about McCain.
 

Mike

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Sandhusker said:
Oldtimer said:
The final version passed the Senate 93-1. Republican presidential candidate John McCain, who has made his opposition to congressional "pork-barrel" spending a cornerstone of his campaign, did not vote on either the Coburn amendment or the final bill.

Business as usual.....Didn't want to upset his buddy Senator Stevens- as he'd screw up the tit for tat good old boy system of D.C that he's been right in the middle of for a Quarter of a Century...... :(

I think you missed the jist of the article, OT. It wasn't about McCain.

Touche'

He won't get it though. No sense of humor. Way too stupid. :lol:
 

Sandhusker

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Speaking of stupid, is there any possible way that Biden could put his foot any deeper in his mouth? Looks like Obama has made yet another of his great character decisions.
 
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