Do you see what happens, John McCain, when you declare war on your base (the press)?
From the Wall Street Journal:
During an appearance Friday on ABC’s “The View,” Sen. McCain said Gov. Palin shared his views, and hasn’t sought congressional earmarks. “Not as governor she hasn’t,” he said.
In fact, in the current fiscal year, she is seeking $197 million for 31 projects, the records show. In the prior year, her first year in office, she sought $256 million for dozens more projects ranging from research on rockfish and harbor-seal genetics to rural sanitation and obesity prevention. By comparison, her predecessor, Gov. Frank Murkowski, sought more than $350 million in his last year in office.
The McCain campaign said Sunday that Gov. Palin’s overall record is one of fiscal discipline. “Her record is cutting the number of earmark requests from the previous administration sizably,” said McCain spokesman Tucker Bounds, and she has vetoed wasteful state spending.
As for Sen. McCain’s televised comments on Friday, Mr. Bounds added, “If he gave viewers a mistaken impression, it certainly wasn’t intentional.”
In an interview with ABC News on Friday, Gov. Palin herself suggested she no longer seeks earmarks for her state. “The abuse of earmarks, it’s un-American, it’s undemocratic, and it’s not going to be accepted in a McCain-Palin administration. Earmark abuse will stop.”
If John McCain and Sarah Palin lied, that certainly wasn’t their intention. Is this crap getting old yet? I particularly like this Palin earmark request because is seems somewhat familiar:
She also has sought $4.5 million to upgrade an airport on a Bering Sea island that has a year-round population of less than 100.
Is this the ‘Runway in Nowhere’?
