Big Shock: Senate Votes Down Earmark Ban

I've always loved the argument that earmarks are "just a drop in the budget bucket so what's the big deal?" Okay, if that's true then you won't even miss them, will you?

"Wait, wait...they're, uh, a vital source of funding for much needed state projects." Okay, if this money is needed in certain states why are we taken money from those states, laundering it in D.C. and then sending it back?

The next election doesn't matter. This country can't be saved.

Just for giggles, here's the list of the Earmarxists :

Akaka (D-HI) Alexander (R-TN) Baucus (D-MT) Begich (D-AK) Bingaman (D-NM) Blumenthal (D-CT) Blunt (R-MO) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Cochran (R-MS) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Coons (D-DE) Durbin (D-IL) Feinstein (D-CA) Franken (D-MN)

Gillibrand (D-NY) Harkin (D-IA) Hoeven (R-ND) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Inouye (D-HI) Johnson (D-SD) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Landrieu (D-LA) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lugar (R-IN) Manchin (D-WV) Menendez (D-NJ) Merkley (D-OR) Mikulski (D-MD)

Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-NE) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Schumer (D-NY) Sessions (R-AL) Shaheen (D-NH) Shelby (R-AL) Tester (D-MT) Udall (D-NM) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wicker (R-MS) Wyden (D-OR)