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Re: Election 2010: Teabaggin' the Ds & Rs
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Originally Posted by Cletus Miller
Before the hullabaloo about "pork" and "earmarks" (largely pushed by Johnny McC), earmarks were pretty opaque, too. You're assuming that the relative openness of the current earmark process will continue in the future.
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I think many things about the legislative process that used to be opaque are now more transparent. That said, the only sets of people who care about earmarks are those who are getting the money, and those who look for embarrassing examples to complain about the process.
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