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Quin Hillyer writes this letter to the editor in response to Kenneth Tomlinson's latest piece, "Lend Me Your Earmarks,Chaussures Tory Burch Escarpins," which appears in this week's issue of THE WEEKLY STANDARD:
To the editor:
My friend Ken Tomlinson's otherwise superb article in the Nov. 22 issue (“Lend Me Your Earmarks”),Gucci Fels, with which I agree wholeheartedly in every other respect,Christian Louboutin Bottines, is marred by one paragraph that repeats a bizarre myth that continually has popped up for the past 12 years,chaussure louboutin, a myth that badly rewrites the public record. The myth is that former House Appropriations chairman U.S. Rep. Bob Livingston somehow encouraged fiscal indiscipline and ushered in a reign of pork-barrel spending in Washington. Tomlinson wrote that Livingston and former Speaker Newt Gingrich "establish[ed] the earmark as the modern congressman's favorite tool of seduction." Tomlinson also repeats the canard that Livingston "froze into place the longtime (mostly Democratic) staff" of his committee.
The facts are these: In 1995 and 1996 (for fiscal years 1995 via rescissions,louboutin pas cher, 1996 and 1997), Livingston's committee cut almost exactly $50 billion in actual dollars in domestic discretionary spending,Christian Louboutin Pumps, or just shy of $100 billion from the Democrats' projected spending levels. Earmarks as defined by Citizens Against Government Waste went from just 1,Gucci Sandales,318 in 1994 to 1,Christian Louboutin Plat,596 in 1997,Gucci Femmes Bottes, at a price in the last year of $14.5 billion (after which the cost dropped back to $12 billion under Livingston's watch). That's not a big jump in earmarks; it's stasis, combined with a domestic spending reduction overall.
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