4. Earmarking is bad politics
If the Senate GOP wants to send a signal that they don’t get it and are not listening they can reject an earmark moratorium. For Republicans, earmarks are the ultimate mixed message. We’ll never be trusted to be the party of less spending while we’re rationalizing more spending through earmarks. The long process of restoring fiscal sanity in Washington begins with saying no to pork.
We will soon know if the RINO Senators are able to kick the earmark addicts.
We would save a lot more than 16B if you consider the fact that a lot of the earmarks were used to buy votes on big ticket bills that might not have been approved without the earmarks.