New Hampshire: Shea-porter

From the NRCC:

Rep. Carol Shea-Porter (D-NH) voted last night against protecting millions of Americans who played by the rules, including thousands of her constituents. The motion that she voted against would have prohibited those who lied on mortgage applications from receiving taxpayer assistance. Instead, Shea-Porter has voted along with her party bosses in Washington to reward dishonest borrowers, unscrupulous lenders, and speculators (House Roll Call 103).

Specifically, Shea-Porter voted against a motion that would prohibit taxpayer funds from being used:

to assist anyone who lied about their income or assets on their mortgage application;
to assist any lender that failed to follow proper underwriting standards;
as incentives to lenders to rework loans for irresponsible borrowers;
unless the President submits a plan that provides equitable treatment of all mortgage holders.

After the last couple of days of listening to Obama, you'd get that impression with that Fiscal Responsibility Summit on Monday and last night's speech.  But, as with all things Obama, there is seemingly always an expiration date.  This one, not so much (dodge: "well, this is left over business from Bush!).

$410 Billion Omnibus spending.  8.5% over last year (well over the rate of inflation).  9,000 or so earmarks (40% of them Republican - YUCK!).

From a tweet from Styx1972, got a link to here which led to TaxPayers for Common Sense which has ALL of the earmarks listed by Department.  Well, I decided to take a look to see what my Congress Critters decided to earmark (it took a while the formats between the House & Senate versions were different; I make no claim that I have the absolute full list - after all, there's a LOT of hidden stuff in those bills).

I like Landrigan a lot, but this is just silly, and makes me wonder about the other nuggets of inside baseball in the piece:
Why would Hodes leak a statement about his Senate plans to the liberal Blue Hampshire blog? To curry favor with the more left-leaning base of the party that's always been more enamored with Shea-Porter.
From our about page:
Blue Hampshire was founded by bloggers Dean Barker, Michael Caulfield, and Laura Clawson,  formerly of The Yankee Doodler, NH-02 Progressive, and Blue Granite. While chiefly following the Paul Hodes and Charles Bass congressional race, they occasionally became part of the story itself, most notably when a top aide to Bass posed as a liberal blogger on their sites to dampen support and contributions for Hodes.