Second thoughts on Chaffetz
The Provo Daily Herald is suggesting that Third Congressional District voters may suffer buyer's remorse in their decision to dump Chris Cannon for Jason Chaffetz.An editorial characterizes Chaffetz as an overconfident naif:
So certain is Chaffetz of winning, he's spending money on a junket to Alaska . . . to evaluate oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
It's a good thing that Chaffetz is trying to educate himself on issues like oil. But questions linger about whether he understands what being an effective congressman will mean.The Daily Herald is particularly concerned about Chaffetz's attack on congressional earmarks, which he calls "a cancer within the system."
Blaming earmarks for the nation's problems is a misdiagnosis. Cutting them won't trim the federal budget by a nickel. All that would happen is that your own elected representatives would no longer have a say in how your tax dollars are spent . . .
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The Herald gets it wrong on most things, even though Don Meyers has now migrated to the Tribune which has been an improvement at the Herald.
The claim that eliminating earmarks won't reduce spending is semi-accurate in the short-term but completely wrong in the long-term.
By eliminating earmarks and relying on a process that allocates spending based on need and cost-effectiveness instead of politics, government can address more problems with the same amount of money.
By keeping earmarks, government will have to spend more money to address the same amount of problems that would otherwise be addressed by eliminating earmarks and allowing tax dollars to be spent based on sound finance and economics instead of politics.
Was it you or the Herald that put him in District 2? He's running in District 3. He LIVES in District 2.
Tribune's Bob Barr Blackout Watch: It's been 50 days since the Libertarian Party nominated Bob Barr as its presidential candidate, but the Salt Lake Tribune has yet to report this news in its print edition.
Um, seriously, is Bob Barr or the Libertarian party even relevant right now? As much as I would love ot have a relevant third-party in the political process, they always manage to pick a underfunded or a totally weird candidate.
Avoiding earmarks isn't about directly fixing the budget problems. Earmarks feed the culture of corruption in the US Congress. Earmarks for a Congressman is like crack for an addict. You need to avoid it.
Think of it like the new war on drugs!
Like Alpine is that far away from Provo, Eagle Mountain, South Jordan, West Valley, etc. 2nd district. 3rd district. Who cares? It will likely be back in the 3rd district in a couple of years.
Glen Warchol is stool.
Lesson on ermarks -- No Presidential Authorization, No Congressional Authorization, No review in Committee, Often not seen by the “agency” under which they will be administered, No debate on the merits of the project, No discussion as to the effect on the bottom line (deficit).
Then, after 100’s of earmarks are dropped into the budget, the budget is delayed/stalled until it is finally passed just in time for Christmas break and the Congressmen get a few days to review an Omnibus (all-inclusive) budget bill that is thousands of pages and millions and millions of dollars of earmarks.
Representative J. Hensarling of Texas said, “Once again, the earmarking process has lent itself to the triumph of seniority over merit, secrecy over transparency, and the special interest over the national interest.”
When it comes to earmarks, those who come out ahead are the lobbyists (who work for hefty retainers) and the Congressmen who benefit from lobbyist contributions.
Who pays? Look in the mirror.
Remember -- it's our money.
I will have no "buyers remorse" in replacing Chris Cannon with Jason Chaffetz as the Republican candidate. An editorial is just someone's opinion, and I disagree with the opinions that were expressed in that Daily Herald editorial. I applaude Chaffetz's trip to ANWR. If elected, he will have actually seen the area and be able to make an educated decision about whether or not to drill there. Moreover, while earmarks may bring money home for projects here, the system is corrupt. I would rather seen that system thrown out in favor of one free of backroom deals etc. Business as usual in Washington has become corrupt and we'd do well to have an overhaul to root out the bad habits that are there. Just because a political practice is used, that doesn't mean it is ethical or good for the American people.
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