How classic is it that McConnell snuck a $2.9 billion earmark for KY into the the CR/Debt Limit bill?

Filed in National by on October 17, 2013

This just cracks me up.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) struck a deal with Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Wednesday, averting a potential debt default and reopening the government while leaving the Obamacare virtually untouched, once passed by Congress and signed by the president.

Though the deal comes with concessions from both parties, it also benefits McConnell’s home state of Kentucky.

Section 123 of the Senate bill secures $2.918 billion in funding for the Olmsted Lock and Dam Authority for a dam project on the Ohio River being developed by URS Corp., a construction management company.

Oh… the debt… ohh… the out of control spending….Oh my! Oh My! Teabags unite!! Circular firing squad assemble in the village green!!

Hilarious.

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  1. puck says:

    Bribery! (smacks forehead). We shoulda tried it sooner.

  2. Liberal Elite says:

    I wonder if Kentucky is ready to reward him for such?

    And what do our ‘local’ tea party friends have to say about this?

  3. fightingbluehen says:

    Why didn’t Delaware get in on that pork? We could use it.
    Start up those presses and give us some scrilla.
    Debt? What debt?

  4. cassandra_m says:

    McConnell is part of your club, FBH — you should holla at him to share.

  5. fightingbluehen says:

    “McConnell is part of your club, FBH”

    Yeah, whatever…….. I wouldn’t join any club that would have me as a member.

  6. cassandra_m says:

    That’s funny, since you’re over here singin’ their tune plenty.

  7. X Stryker says:

    If it creates jobs, then it’s fine by me. We need more of that.

  8. Tom McKenney says:

    His aide said that they had no idea how that got into the bill. Oh my gosh what a surprise