The Washington Independent » Maureen Dowd http://washingtonindependent.com National News in Context Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:15:40 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Weirdest McCain Tweet Yet http://washingtonindependent.com/32996/the-weirdest-mccain-tweet-yet http://washingtonindependent.com/32996/the-weirdest-mccain-tweet-yet#comments Mon, 09 Mar 2009 17:38:15 +0000 David Weigel http://washingtonindependent.com/?p=32996 Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) tweets about earmarks have won the hearts of Americans from Maureen Dowd to … well, to Maureen Dowd. But this latest tweet about “wasteful spending” is a head-scratcher.

$1 million for Shipment and storage of oil shale core samples

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]]> Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) tweets about earmarks have won the hearts of Americans from Maureen Dowd to … well, to Maureen Dowd. But this latest tweet about “wasteful spending” is a head-scratcher.

$1 million for Shipment and storage of oil shale core samples

Oil shale research is wasteful? I don’t know many Republicans who agree with this. Does McCain think the word “shale” is funny or is he a skeptic?

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