Club for Growth: Membership has its privileges
November 12th, 2007 at 11:31 pm . by nukeFrom Arkansas Blog…Max Brantley has an interesting take on Jackson “Steve” Stephens, Jr., and The Club for Growth
Stephens, you might recall, has been hounding Mike Huckabee for expanding government for the likes of providing health insurance for children of the working poor, building highways and keeping the sales tax on groceries to improved inadequate schools.
Small government, that’s the mantra of the Club for Growth, which is heavily financed in its political activities by Stephens, heir to the financial fortune built by his father and uncle.
So what?
Well, in the fine print of the defense spending bill approved Thursday, you’ll see $1.6 million to Exoxemis of Little Rock to research and test a substance for wound decontamination. That’s Stephens’ company. Nothing like having taxpayers finance R&D for multi-millionaires.
This just gets interestinger and interestinger.
See also: Evangelical Outpost Joe Carter asks, If CfG’s Pat Toomey is willing to overlook pork when it goes to one of his largest contributors, how serious can he be about earmark reform?
Previously:
More on The Club for Growth’s Smear of Mike Huckabee
What is behind Club for Growth’s attack on Mike Huckabee?,
Huckabee: Life is good,
Huckabee: The Real Deal,
Fred Duncabee vs Rudy McRomney,
Primary Momentum, Mike Huckabee is on the rise,
The Dobson Effect
Glass house syndrome, eh?
But I was led to believe that the CFG was perfect in every way, that their judgement was not to be questioned, and that when they called someone out they were doing so with the purest intentions and motives. Will an explano be forth coming on this pork product, or will it be ignored?
It will be ignored, unless it is picked up by the major media.
Having busted you before I get to do it again. You need to check your facts El Nuko.
This “earmark” is for surgical wound disinfection and biological decontamination to be spent by the Army’s Instituie of Surgical Research. Go to http://www.exoxemis.com and you will find decades of research funded by that company. I guess you don’t want the wounded soldiers in Iraq or Afganistan protected from infection. http://benenlson.senate.gov/issue/earmarks/dod/index.cfm
Or maybe you equate this Army program with the earmark for the Woodstock museum.
You huckabee people don’t have much sense. If I had my head in th mouth of lion, I wouldn’t pull its mane.
You can’t have it both ways Emmet.
But, you know that.
Not both ways. Only one way. Tax money for injured soldiers. When you omit the details of which the truth is composed, you lie. But you know that.
“If I had my head in th mouth of lion, I wouldn’t pull its mane.”
Gosh, I don’t know how I missed the veiled threat….I guess I was just taken aback by your “ends justifies the means” argument.
Fine. I’ve got no problem with tax money for injured soldiers. None at all.
What is your problem with tax money for schools and highways?
When tax money is unwisely spent and then the error is compounded with tax increases as Huckabee did in Arkansas, then we all have a big problem, if he’s the nominee. No threat, just the fact.
For the life of me, I don’t undertand why huckabee doesn’t own up to his tax and spend record and just go on.
“For the life of me, I don’t undertand why huckabee doesn’t own up to his tax and spend record and just go on.”
Well, this was just a whizzing contest between the two Arkansans before the CfG imprimatur was stamped on it. Now, if Huck backs down, it looks like he’s giving in to a bunch of well-heeled Yankees. That just ain’t gonna happen.
An earmark is an earmark, it’s free money from the slop-trough. If this company owned by the CFG’s sugar daddy is not gorging on the slop, then why didn’t they just go through the grants process instead?
Earmarks are just plain wrong, I don’t care where they go, who is getting them, or what they are used for.
If anyone is “busted” on this matter, it is CFG and their hypocrisy.
Somebody sure has a bug up their a** about Huckabee.