{"id":7146,"date":"2010-09-21T11:07:23","date_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=7146"},"modified":"2010-09-21T11:11:09","modified_gmt":"2010-09-21T15:11:09","slug":"lisa-murkowski-save-the-earmarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/7146\/lisa-murkowski-save-the-earmarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Murkowski to CNN: Save the Earmarks!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many have already chronicled<\/a> the supreme selfishness and sense of entitlement exhibited by current Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was appointed to her seat but recently defeated in the Republican primary by West Point and Yale Law School graduate and war veteran Joe Miller.<\/p>\n

As if striving to degrade herself even further, Murkowski offered one of the strangest rationales for her vindictive write-in candidacy:\u00a0 defense of earmarks.\u00a0 Yes, earmarks, those symbols of what is wrong with our irresponsible tax-and-borrow-and-spend ruling class in Washington, D.C.\u00a0 Appearing on CNN’s “State of the Union,”<\/a> Murkowski accused Mr. Miller of supporting what she called “some pretty radical things,” including earmarks:<\/p>\n

He is suggesting to us … some pretty radical things.\u00a0 You know, we dump Social Security.\u00a0 No more Medicare.\u00a0 Let’s get rid of the Department of Education.\u00a0 Elimination of all earmarks.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Senator Murkowski’s obvious sense of personal entitlement is unsavory enough.\u00a0 The same goes for her defense of a a Department of Education that has only witnessed a deterioration in American scholastic achievement during its existence.\u00a0 But really, Senator Murkowski?\u00a0 A defense of earmarks?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many have already chronicled the supreme selfishness and sense of entitlement exhibited by current Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, who was appointed to her seat but recently defeated in the Republican primary by West Point and Yale Law School graduate and war veteran Joe Miller. As if striving to degrade herself even further, Murkowski offered one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1026,1022,1869,1868,38,61,28],"class_list":["post-7146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-alaska","tag-earmarks","tag-miller","tag-murkowski","tag-senate","tag-spending","tag-tea-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7146"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7151,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7146\/revisions\/7151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}