Zimmer was against earmarks before he was for them

by: Jason Springer

Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 12:14:06 PM EDT

Barack Obama called shenanigans on Sarah Palin's laughable, hypocritical statement on earmarks:

But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up."

Maybe Dick Zimmer and Sarah Palin have been talking, because the same statement applies.

Zimmer has run his campaign on the evils of earmarks attacking Frank Lautenberg for just about everything, except for the things Lautenberg hasn't gotten for NJ, which Zimmer attacks for as well. There's a story in the Daily Record today about how Dick Zimmer and Tom Wyka agree on getting rid of earmarks, only they don't. Wyka is consitent, while you can judge Zimmer's position for yourself. First, he says this:

Zimmer doesn't think the earmark game looks good, either, saying, "I don't want to play the pork-barrel game better; I want to shut it down."

Very strong response on how terrible earmarks are, until he starts talking out of the other side of his mouth to defend the earmarks of one Rodney Frelinghuysen:

He said the pledge he signed "does not say I will not sponsor earmarks. It says earmarks should be transparent, they should be justified."
Zimmer said that from what he sees, Frelinghuysen's earmarks comply with that criteria. You can call that the GOP bond.

So Dick Zimmer hates earmarks and wants to end them altogether, unless he decides they are ok later in the same article? Maybe Dick Zimmer was against earmarks before he was for them. I guess he's not opposed to all earmarks, just those he designates as not important (i.e. ones by Democrats).

Jason Springer :: Zimmer was against earmarks before he was for them

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Sarah Palin received $27 million for Wasilla (0.00 / 0)

when she was mayor...Today, in The Record, Jackson's Capitol Games column -he calls attention to Dick Zimmer's abject duplicity
and nails the Republican VP nominee, Sarah Palin

by: KathyCallahan @ Sun Sep 07, 2008 at 20:23:58 PM CDT