Giuliani: Earmarks for me, but not for thee
By Steve Benen Monday Nov 26, 2007 1:01pm
This may come as a surprise to absolutely no one, but what Rudy Giuliani says and what he does are frequently at odds with one another. In the latest example, Candidate Giuliani hates earmarks, but Businessman Giuliani loves ‘em.
Giuliani, the Republican presidential front-runner, last month pledged to “get rid of” so-called earmarks, which cost taxpayers about $13 billion this year, saying his party should promote “fiscal discipline.” Just weeks later, Bracewell & Giuliani LLP won $3 million worth of projects for its clients in defense-spending legislation. […]
In all, Bracewell & Giuliani sought federal earmarks for 14 companies this year, 11 of which hired the firm after Giuliani joined in March 2005, Senate records show. Giuliani, 63, isn’t registered as a lobbyist. The firm paid him $1.2 million last year, according to his personal financial-disclosure form.
The defense-spending legislation approved this month by Congress contained funding for three of those clients, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense, a Washington-based advocacy group that opposes special projects that lawmakers insert in spending bills without public debate.
Republican consultant Eddie Mahe responded, “It’s a bit hypocritical. He profits from it. I don’t think Joe Sixpack is going to buy into that.”
For Giuliani to run on anti-earmark platform after (successfully) fighting for clients’ earmarks in private practice requires even more cognitive dissonance than most of the former mayor’s contradictions.
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Does anyone think that Rudy is an honest man?
This guy wouldn't even be in the race anymore if it weren't for his fanboys Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd
Imagine that, a republican, running for President, that is making money off this illegal war. Who would have ever guessed....
Say one thing do another. Works every time. Why ? Because people are stupid and don't care.
Skunk spit!! Lies - Lies - Lies! Can't a republican make a statement that is factual?
Hey Rudy! I would gladly listen to you feces, however I don’t hook up my wagon with the false promise of drugs. I get off on a shoe shine, a full tank of gas, an Austrian self cleaning razor, a hunk of cheese, a jug of Dago red, a nude broad on Venice beach, and the love of Jay-zuz the lard, as he promised me eternal life and all the virigins I can pork. You probably have no idea that I’m actually a famous member of a prominate cutting edge Pomo band so lacking in proper protocol and manners, as well as the requisite and adequate levels of taste as to prohibit what could have been a groundbreaking performance by that mysterious Dadaesque performance group The Maltmen, as the vague rumors and conspiratorial whispers heard around the hallowed halls and dank drinking establishments of that arboreal dell known to those in the know as Silver Lake and other neighboring hinterlands indicate musical anarchy so diabolical as to hardly be contained in so insufficient a vessel as a description, let alone the body politic across the broad-spectrum of human experience. Nuts! If you want to do the research, you’ll undoubtedly discover that scienteists are perched on the edge of a discovery that certain sonic levels of distortion combined with visual and olafactory stimuli can create sureal levels of mind expansion that are stunning in there implications. You should try it some time - it’s the kind.
However, I should also send you in the direction of a gal that recites political poetry with a large snake on her head. My mind reels with potential possibility as to whether that lucky snake Draco is only thing she’s wearing whence enumerating her political poetry? That has possibilities in my rather tattered and seedy book, not to mention the smell of mendacity and big dollars and cash prizes. How does you feel about struggling writers out of work? Just to paint in a few missing colors in the paint box of my mind, would you happen to give out your phone number and measurements to a tranny friend of mine?
Anyway, say hello to Jonathan, tell him that Spunky loved the pomegranates, and that I hope he still finds time to drive through Massachusetts late at night, with the radio on………
Carl, buddy, get that prescription refilled.
corruption - something trudy has in common with his girl bernie.
Is he done? Is the public done with the Putty Tat yet? Seriously, how is he still standing? What the hell is this cat's campaign based on? 9/11 H(Z)ero and "I don't suck quite as much as the other GOP candy asses"?
Wow, hey, good luck with that, Rude-y.
That's Guilani justice... it's good for him, eff you!
and trent lott wants to be just like trudy!
Isn't cognitive dissonance one of the prerequisites to joining the republican party?
Geez, Carl. Trying to give the Freepers something to post at their blogs pointing to how "cwazy dem libruls iz"? Nice try!
fwacbar @ 3:
Isn't that one of the qualifiers for them to run as Republican presidential candidates? Isn't that something the GOP and RNC institute in their presidential candidates? Yeah, I thought it was...
Rudy is two-faced, the one he shows in public, and the other one, lower down, usually covered by his panties, which only 'very close' associates get to see.
He speaks out of both mouths. Strangely enough, he uses his normally visible mouth to whisper to fellow pols and make the nefarious deals he's always pulling, while he flatulates with his lower mouth when he speaks to the public, which is all lies.
In other words, Rudy is a two-faced, double dealing, ass*ole.
Here's something I don't do. I don't believe a word that comes out of Rudy's mouth.
Suggestion:
Change the name of this site to "Crooks and Liars and Hypocrites and Profiteers" (CLHP), and stick Rudy's picture on the logo.
Carl Gordon @ 6:
Yea... You tell'em buddy!
The background of his picture says a lot.
I'm sure rudy has at least two ear marks
For when they were pierced.
Mr. Anon @ 18:
Tell 'em what, exactly? What a piece of art school drivel. Thanks for playing.....
I can see the ads now if rudy becomes the GOP candidate for the general election.
Vote For Rudy
He's Prettier Than Hillary.
According to Rudy's 'Auto-Biography', which someone else wrote, he doesn't even trust himself.
When asked about this, Rudy said;
'What, trust myself, you think I'm stupid?'
(Well, that's a subject for another book, Giuliani)
My name is Rudy - I AM an asshole, therefore I have license to BE an asshole!
show me a conservative who wants smaller government
and i'll show you a republican without a gsa number
rudy rudy rudy...
I'm high alright, but not on false drugs. Unlike Rudy, I'm high on a shoe shine, a loaf of bread, a hunk of cheese, a jug of wine, and a nude broad on the beach in Venice. And unlike Rudy, I'm not listening to every six-toed imbred christian kissing cousin that they managed to spring out of the padded room for the weekend, long enough to cast furtive hand signals and speak in tongues about diabolical schemmes to force are children into servitude as unwed lesbian mothers in Chile, and mandatory gay parades every quarter moon in months that have e's in them, in honor of Beezelbub, Dick Cheney's best drinking bud. Rudy definitelely needs to raise the bar on who comes to his weekend Twister parties. And somebody please tell Rudolph that the peace symbol is definitely not the foot print of the Amerikan chicken.
"Damn , , , someone looked behind the GD curtain ! " ( Rudy Gee )
"Giuliani, the Republican presidential front-runner"? Since when, and according to who? Have I had my head in the sand? Everytime this lying cheat opens his mouth his poll numbers take a slide. Oh, I forgot. Must be the lamestream media telling us he's the front-runner, depending on which Corpstream media's pocket he's in.
'Cognitive Dissonance' applied to Giuliani, is PC-speak for 'Lying, conniving, hypocritical cock*ucker'.
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