Bi-partisanship can be found in the earmarks to the budget . . . what's with that?
If President Obama wants to find an example of bi-partisanship he need only look at the authorship on the budget earmarks. Granted its the last place he wants to reference as he struggles to get the leadership of the parties to cooperate.
Ironically, the number of earmarks from Republicans is not likely to result in their support of the bill. What happened to the "good old days" when at least authorship of an earmark assured the support of the author.
So here's my suggestion. Move forward on the bill. In every instance where a member of the House or Senate has sponsored an earmark and then voted against the budget, remove the earmark in the committee of conference. This will achieve two important goals: reducing the overall budget and holding the earmarkers accountable for their earmark.
Earmarks are not necessarily good or bad by their nature, but hypocrisy is. If a member of congress thinks an earmark is important enough to place in the budget then he/she should be willing to pay the price associated with proposing it. They should not be able to place it in the budget and then vote against it.
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