Gerry Rafferty, call your office…
Bret Baier last night:
Texas congressman and Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul — who is campaigning as a critic of congressional overspending — has revealed that he is requesting $400 million worth of earmarks this year.
The Wall Street Journal reports Paul’s office says those requests include $8 million for the marketing of wild American shrimp and $2.3 million to pay for research into shrimp fishing.
A spokesman says, “Reducing earmarks does not reduce government spending, and it does not prohibit spending upon those things that are earmarked. What people who push earmark reform are doing is they are particularly misleading the public — and I have to presume it’s not by accident.”
Well, no shock for that. I think we figured out Ron Paul a long time ago.
Also in the same link:
Actor Sean Penn‘s recent trip to Venezuela to pal around with President Hugo Chavez has even some Hollywood liberals upset.
Columnist Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun-Times reports that one major producer who asked not to be identified — and who is a big liberal and Democratic supporter — said, “It’s no secret that Sean is very left-wing, even in a town where liberal or even radical politics have long been common. But as much as many people here despise President Bush, a lot of us think this trip to Venezuela by Penn was wrong. Danny Glover did it too… It isn’t the proper thing and only gives ammunition to conservatives who like to point to Hollywood as being anti-American.”
Hmmmf.
We figured him up quite a while ago, too. The question is an open one, as to whether or not liberals will publicly denounce his actions. I suspect they will not, (His politics, I think are really too close to their own, so it would be like denouncing your own POV, which was exactly what we ran into with that moron, Glover) but time will tell.
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