From the politico:
House Republicans, who had hoped to restore their fiscal credibility by bludgeoning Democrats on pork-barrel spending, are instead targeting one another in an intraparty election-year earmark fight that appears to have divided members of the House GOP leadership.
Republican Study Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) and four other GOP members — including Chief Deputy Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) — sent their colleagues a letter Friday urging them to agree to a self-imposed one-year moratorium on earmarks.
The catch: Many members have already submitted earmark requests for this year. To turn around and approve even a temporary ban could reinforce Democratic charges of hypocrisy, charges that resonate because the number of earmarks soared when the GOP controlled Congress.
Ugggh. Scumbags. Those who keep packing in the pork deserve to lose their seat. I hope President McCain fulfills his promise to embarrass the porkers. I think he's crazy enough to do it.
