There are some wasteful earmarks, but some very beneficial ones also. But this is one of the most exaggerated and cheap applause lines in all of politics. Not even 1% of the total budget. Eliminate all of them and it will accomplish little.
It's a cheap applause line, and little more. You're helping to perpetuate a myth. Entitlements are where the money is. I think there is more fraud in Medicare and Medicaid than all the earmarks combined each year. Why isn't that constantly mentioned by the pols?
I guess that makes McQueeg the king of the cheap applause line.
BTW, what did Queeg actually do about all the pork in the $700 billion TARP package that he suspended his campaign to deal with? Anything? Besides rubber stamp the damn thing?