Where is the Politics of Hope?

Officeholders intent on changing destructive and wasteful government spending face an uphill battle. A 410 billion dollar spending bill is before Congress. Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) and others have attempted to remove earmark spending from the bill and are meeting resistance.

An article in The Washington Post Democrats Stop Effort To Remove Earmarks reveals the seriousness of the problem. Incredibly the article reveals that 10 million in funding, for clients of a disbanded lobbying firm was approved by the Senate. Worse yet the lobbying firm is the object of a federal investigation for fraud connected with contributions to members of Congress. I wonder how the members of Congress, alleged to have accepted money from the lobbying firm, voted on this. The whole seedy mess is merely touched on by the linked article. We need more of this type of reporting. Way to go Paul Kane.