Castle’s Ear(mark)s Are Burning
Representative Mike Castle’s hypocrisy is coming full circle. The News Journal has an indepth article simply entitled, “This Year Castle Opposes Earmarks”. Unstable Isotope wrote about this last week:
You see, Castle’s actually helping Delaware by not funding any projects in Delaware. Because not providing money to Delaware actually provides jobs to Delaware, right? Mike Castle is really going all out on helping Delaware by not actually doing anything to help Delaware. Luckily for us, the stimulus is working and we have adults in charge of our state so we’re getting out of the economic downturn, without Mike Castle’s help.
If Mike Castle is going to turn into a boilerplate Republican who thinks balancing the federal budget is like balancing a household checkbook, that’s his decision. However he really needs to fight his addiction to appearing at federal funding announcements.
Some interesting facts from The News Journal article which reiterates that Castle is only following order from the Republican Party:
- Castle sought $196 million in earmarks over the last three years
- Castle has provided earmarks for Delaware for the 17 years he has been in Congress
- Earmarks for Delaware help non-profits like the Ministry of Caring and the Mary Campbell Center
Chris Coons who is running against Castle for US Senates said:
Either earmarks are a great thing that help direct funding to support Delaware businesses that help grow technology, or they’re a bad thing that we ought to all be working against. But he’s literally trying to have it both ways.
Tags: Mike Castle, Republican Hypocrisy
Flippety floppety.
I find it interesting that the NJ is focusing on this so much. This is the third article where they’ve discussed it. The “Castle is a hypocrite” meme is really taking hold with the media.
That graphic is hysterical! About time he start taking some heat!
That graphic is hysterical! Wonder if we could get that on a sticker or a tee shirt……hmmm.
The NJ sounds like it wants to hedge it’s bets a little.
Maybe Mike Castle checked the daily U. S. National Debt Clock-Real Time
http://www.usdebtclock.org/ and saw the total number:
$13,044,969,837,975.00 (it goes up every second)
Debt per citizen: $42,159.00
Debt per taxpayer: $118,296.00
and decided that enough was enough with the “earmark” spending and hopefully other politicians might see the reality of where all this excessive “earmark” spending will put this country.
I guess you don’t know much about Mike Castle.
Stopping earmark spending is a stunt. It does nothing to close the debt and it denies Delaware funding for programs. It’s a lose-lose. If Castle started talking about raising taxes or cutting defense spending then perhaps I might start believing that he gives a crap about debt or deficit.