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Thursday, June 28, 2007
GOP Sen. on WH Earmarks: "Hypocrisy? No, Duplicity"
An article in The Hill this morning quotes GOP Sen. Larry Craig (ID), responding to a question about whether President Bush was being hypocritical for requesting hundreds of earmarks even while criticizing them and vowing to cut the number of earmarks in half this year:
"Hypocrisy? No, but one might call that duplicity."
According to the article, Rep. David Obey estimates that Bush had requested over 800 earmarks in the Energy-Water appropriations bill alone. Nevertheless, Bush has promised to veto it, on account of "the excess spending in this bill." Is that what Sen. Craig meant by 'duplicity'?
Posted by Dana Chasin
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