We’re finally getting through to them:
House Republicans approved a conference-wide moratorium on earmarks on Thursday, one day after a House committee enacted a ban on for-profit earmarks.
The Republicans’ moratorium is more extensive than the House Appropriations Committee’s ban in that it applies to all earmarks for all members of the caucus…
…House Republican Conference Chairman Mike Pence (Ind.) hailed the decision in an interview on Fox News.
“Republicans did something very dramatic today that’s going to make it very uncomfortable for business as usual,” he said. “So now House Republicans are going to the American people and saying we want a clean break from the runaway spending in the past. And that’s going to be quite a contrast from this Congress and the administration.”
We’ll have to keep after them and be rather merciless with any week kneed types who try to get around this. Our Republican demand is that no longer will the money of the American taxpayer be used to buy a politician re-election. No more ear marks – not ever again; that should be our ultimate demand.
This is also why I think we’ll do well in November no matter what happens – Democrats are praying for 8% unemployment and 5% GDP growth. They figure that will save them. It won’t. The people are not upset at the economy, but at government. Which ever party captures the mantle of revolutionary change in the way government business is done will win – and win very big – in November.
