McCain, Clinton, and Obama Team Up

In an interesting twist, the three Presidential candidates all agreed on Thursday that the practice of earmarking is an inefficient way to spend tax payer money and therefore any earmarks should require a two thirds majority to be included in legislation.

“Six Democrats, including Hillary Clinton of New York and Barack Obama of Illinois, and [...]

State of the Union and Earmark Threats

The state of the Union.  Ahhhh. One of the last bastians of pure talking point rhetoric.  The State of the Union is written by the President’s speech writers…..or outlined….then each cabinet gets it…..then the writers get at the speech again…..then the cabinet gets it again……then the speech writers.  It is a maze of redtape that [...]