Jonah Goldberg: GOP’s sudden embrace of earmarks is worrisome
by Jonah Goldberg, Tribune Content Agency
Mar 19, 2021
3 minutes
A decade ago, one of the first things Republicans did after taking back the House of Representatives was get rid of earmarks. For those of you who don’t recall, “earmark” is the term of art for when members of Congress bring home the bacon to their district. The GOP was in a tea party-ish mood back then, and getting rid of “bridges to nowhere,” etc., was all the rage.
At the time, I thought the earmark ban
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