But Democrats aren’t – from Byron York over at the Washington Examiner:
…A new analysis by a group of federal-spending watchdogs shows a striking imbalance between the parties when it comes to earmark requests. Democrats remain raging spenders, while Republicans have made enormous strides in cleaning up their act. In the Senate, the GOP made only one-third as many earmark requests as Democrats for 2011, and in the House, Republicans have nearly given up earmarking altogether — while Democrats roll on…
York goes on to note how the Democrats refused to pass a budget before November 2nd – probably because of this continuing addiction to pork. They didn’t want it to show up in votes right before November – but now that November is over, all the pork was shoved in to the OmniWaste bill as Democrats tried to go on one, last binge of taxpayer dollars before they lose the House.
Now, the real battle will be keeping the GOP off the junk – addicts do have a problem with falling off the wagon, and we’ve got a couple of pork pushers in the GOP caucus (Cochran, we’re looking at you). But if we can keep the GOP on the straight and narrow, we’ll be doing what the people want, and we’ll reap the reward of public trust as we head in to 2012 – our grand chance to win full power, and thus reform America.
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