MORE PORK-BASED IDIOCY from the GOP. They’d have a great issue here, if they didn’t have so many pocket-stuffing greedheads in the caucus.

UPDATE: Dave Gamble offers a more upbeat assessment:

The fact that there are now Senators that will challenge earmarks, and the accompanying inferred belief on the part of these Senators that this behavior is seen as politically beneficial back home, are definitely signs of progress, no?

Good point — we’re way ahead of where we were a couple of years ago. But still . . . .