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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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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But politics--as currently practiced--is about appearing to care deeply about something either immaterial but popular/unpopular or something that is important, but professing almost exactly the opposite of what you intend to do. And the Ds have ceded the entirety of the airspace to the Rs. On earmarks, from the beginning, I've been thinking of the politics of it (important), rather than the policy of it (not very substantial, either way).
