If the Republicans are going to complain about earmarks (a.k.a. pork) in spending bills, they should stop being duplicitous. In the 6-month Omnibus Spending Bill that was just passed by the House of Representatives, there were 8,570 earmarks (See Full Story). Of those, about 40 percent of the total lard was from Republicans.
Those who are not without sin, themselves, shouldn't be throwing stones at other sinners! They should lead by example by having yanked their own fat out of that bill. I personally don't follow the rationale that pork buys votes. If it did, the last near-decade of all-pork-all-the-time spending by Republicans surely wasn't able to save their bacon at the polls. Now, was it?
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