HOUSE BANS SECRET EARMARKS-- THE KIND CROOKS LIKE CUNNINGHAM, LEWIS, CALVERT, GOODE & HASTERT HAVE BEEN USING TO ENRICH THEMSELVES

How did this one get by me? On January 5 the House voted to end secrecy on earmarks and ban new deficit spending. I mean that's a big deal! But it sounds innocuous enough: H RES 6- adopting the Rules of the House of Representatives for the One Hundreth Tenth Congress. All 232 Democrats voted yes. The Republican leaders stamped their feet and made a fuss but 48 of their followers abandoned them and joined the Democrats to pass this important sunshine legislation. Virtually all of the worst abusers of the earmark system-- as well as the congressmen most responsible for pushing the deficit spending into the stratosphere over the last 6 years-- voted against the resolution. Among the worst are crooks like Jerry Lewis (CA), Roy Blunt (MO), Howdy Doody (FL), John Doolittle (CA), Duncan Hunter (CA), Thaddeus McCotter (MI), ex-lobbyist Brian Bilbray (CA), John Boehner (OH), Gary Miller (CA), Jim McCrery (LA), Pete Sessions (TX), Tom Reynolds (NY), Phil English (PA), Ken Calvert (CA), Virgil Goode (VA), Mean Jean Schmidt (OH), Denny Hastert (IL), Tom Feeney (FL), Eric Cantor (VA), Buck McKeon (CA)... 152 shameless leeches on the body politic in all-- and then there are the ones in the Senate.