And the difference the candidates make:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton helped secure more than $340 million worth of home-state projects in last year’s spending bills, placing her among the top 10 Senate recipients of what are commonly known as earmarks, according to a new study by a nonpartisan budget watchdog group.
Working with her New York colleagues in nearly every case, Clinton supported almost four times as much spending on earmarked projects as her rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), whose $91 million total placed him in the bottom quarter of senators who seek earmarks, the study showed.
Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), the likely GOP presidential nominee, was one of five senators to reject earmarks entirely, part of his long-standing view that such measures prompt needless spending.
Link via Greg Mankiw here.
It’s well understood and unsurprising that Gibson is an idiot. What I can never understand, though, is how so many conservatives have allowed themselves to become so completely derailed by these Fox News “news analysts” and their ilk. These guys don’t care a hill of beans about free market economies, or fiscal responsibility - they only care about war (they’re for it), gays/Mexicans/Muslims (they’re against them), and “moral” issues (as defined by Pat Robertson).
I think you meant this response for the post above, the “Buy American” post, right? So I will copy it accordingly.