Earmarks to Return if GOP Porkers Get Their Way
Rather than viewing Congress’ difficulty in passing stacks of laws – many of which guzzle tax dollars and trample liberties – as a reason to celebrate, Rogers recommended doling out earmarks to bribe members to pass more legislation. Troublingly, Rogers was not alone in his enthusiasm for exhuming earmarks. Representatives Louis Gohmert and Kay Granger, both Texas Republicans, echoed Rogers’ support of earmarking.
Another supporter of earmarks, Steven LaTourette (R-OH), made perhaps the most chilling admission of all, conceding that earmarks are the Capitol Hill currency of choice to cajole and bully lawmakers into voting certain ways. “You can’t get 218 votes and part of that has to be if you can’t give people (earmarks), you can’t take anything away from them,” LaTourette recently told Reuters.
LaTourette’s comments prove what most taxpayers already know: Earmarks are nothing more than bribes to buy the votes of members of Congress who don’t have the brains to think for themselves or the backbones to stand up for their beliefs.
Disappointing.
As Glenn Reynolds notes: “I guess it’s too late to primary them. This time.”
