Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., each has openly criticized President Barack Obama's spending policies, but they have requested $658 million and $730 million, respectively, in earmarks in the fiscal 2010 appropriations bills now under consideration by Congress.
...[Sen. Bunning] called for lawmakers to remove all earmarks from [an earlier appropriations] bill -- including his own projects. At the time, he criticized Congress for asking for 9,000 earmarks. Thirteen were his.
This time, the senator has requested 100 earmarks, according to his Web site.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
More Republican hypocrisy
Today's Courier-Journal points out the glaring hypocrisy of Mitch McConnell and Jim Bunning:
