{"id":185931975,"date":"2010-11-22T23:46:15","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185931975"},"modified":"2010-11-22T23:46:15","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T23:46:15","slug":"all-earmarks-are-bad-but-earmarks-in-my-district-are-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185931975","title":{"rendered":"All earmarks are bad, but earmarks in my district are good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Tanya Snyder<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\nTea Party darling Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has taken a hard line against earmarks in her second term, after getting nearly $4 million in earmarks her first term. \u201cIt\u2019s all bad, as far as I\u2019m concerned,\u201d she told Fox News this spring. \u201cAll this pork is bad.\u201d<br \/>\nThis week, she told the Minnesota Star Tribune that she wants to redefine earmarks so that they don\u2019t include transportation earmarks. Meaning, she wants an absolute ban on earmarks, except the ones she really, really likes. \u201cAdvocating for transportation projects for one\u2019s district, in my mind, does not equate to an earmark,\u201d she said.<br \/>\nActually, that\u2019s exactly what an earmark is, and that\u2019s why they\u2019ve been so controversial. They\u2019re one of the primary ways that the legislative branch exercises control over spending. Many lawmakers see them as indispensable, since, they assert, they know better what the needs are in their districts than federal bureaucrats in Washington<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/11\/18\/bachmann-its-not-an-earmark-if-its-for-highways-and-bridges\/\">https:\/\/dc.streetsblog.org\/2010\/11\/18\/bachmann-its-not-an-earmark-if-its-for-highways-and-bridges\/<\/a>oldId.20101122234615487<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Streetsblog Capitol Hill by Tanya Snyder &#8230; Tea Party darling Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has taken a hard line against earmarks in her second term, after getting nearly $4 million in earmarks her first term. \u201cIt\u2019s all bad, as far as I\u2019m concerned,\u201d she told Fox News this spring. \u201cAll this pork is bad.\u201d This &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=185931975\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;All earmarks are bad, but earmarks in my district are good&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185931975","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185931975","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=185931975"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185931975\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=185931975"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=185931975"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=185931975"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}