While double-checking the link for the rant just posted, I noticed that a little bit of good stuff continues to sneak past the editors at Slate.
Why the GOP Should Shut Up
Six out of the top 10 Senate earmark hogs are Republicans.
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No fewer than six out of these 10 senators are Republicans, including the two top earmark hogs, Cochran and Wicker. Cochran, Wicker, Bond, and Shelby at least had the decency to vote for the bill after they stuffed it with earmarks. Vitter and Grassley followed [Senate Minority Leader Mitch] McConnell's hypocritical lead, inserting earmarks but then voting against the final bill, knowing it would pass anyway. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), who because of a legal dispute over election results doesn't even have a Senate seat and isn't likely to recover it in court, nonetheless managed to rank in the top third of earmark hogs with a haul of $109 million. His Democratic opponent and the likely victor, Al Franken, got none.
Remember this next time you hear Republicans piss and moan about Democrats' spendthrift ways.
Will The MaverickTM be Twittering about this, one wonders? [Added: When he's not too busy get-offing-my-lawn about really stupid shit, I mean.]
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