On Fox News Sunday this morning Chris Wallace grilled Minority House Leader John Boehner on why there was no mention in the Pledge on earmarks.

Boehner says it is because the Pledge is about now(!), and there is already a moratorium on earmarks, and that come November if the GOP takes the House rest assured it will “not be business as usual.”

Wallace pressed Boehner to “pledge right now” that if the GOP takes the House in November he will do away with earmarks forever. Boehner would not.

The GOP tried to make earmarks an issue when they were no longer in power. Earmarks account for about 1/2 per cent of the federal budget and Congress people should be expected to bring home the bacon to their districts.

Now, that the shoe may be on the other foot . . .

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