...and Earmark king Paul has been right in the middle of it for the past 30 years and has accomplished jack and squat about it. He is no more effective than the guy in everyone’s hometown coffee shop rambling in the corner about the ills of the world.
As Winston Churchill once said, at some point you have to start judging results.
Not to pile on (especially since I already responded to jpsbonce) but I don’t think someone is a Constitutional purist or even in the same solar system as fiscal conservatism if they put in federal earmarks for theater renovations and shrimp marketing campaigns. How much money was borrowed from China for the wild shrimp marketing campaign?