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Earmarxists Make Best Case Against Earmarks (redstate)

The Republican-controlled House is currently operating under a moratorium on
earmarking.  But if several GOP earmarxists have their say, this will change
in the near future.

Throughout the past decade, most of the arguments against earmarks have been
focused on wasteful spending, corruption, cronyism, and self-ingratiating
monuments.  Robert Byrd’s monuments and the Bridge to Nowhere became symbols
for such bad behavior.  To that end, even some conservative advocates of
earmarks have lodged a counterargument.  They contend that earmarks are only
“pocket change,” and that by declining to earmark specific funding bills, we
are ceding more power to the Obama administration.  In order to preclude any
extravagant earmarks and cronyism, they are proposing reforms and limitations
to the process that will supposedly put an end to things like the Bridge to
Nowhere.

All of these arguments completely ignore the most potent problem with any and
every form of earmarking.  Ironically, it is the supporters of earmarks that
have articulated the reason why earmarks must never be resurrected in
Congress.  Here are some quotes from a couple of big-government Republicans as
cited in a widely circulated _Reuters_ article last Friday:

> In a closed-door meeting with fellow Republicans, [Mike]Rogers [R-AL]
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