Earmark Vote in Washington, D.C.

Right now on KMOX, Mark Reardon is commenting — to put it mildly — about the vote today in the capital to include an enormous number of earmarks in the current omnibus spending bill. One Missouri senator voted with the appropriators, and one voted against them, along with Sen. McCain. It breaks my Republican heart to find out which was which, but Sen. McCaskill deserves a lot of credit for her stance on earmarks and pork. (Which are not always the same thing.)  

But, since I just praised Ms. McCaskill, I can call her out for her nonsensical statement in an interview that Reardon just played. She ripped President Bush (deservedly so) for building up such a large deficit, and then praised President Obama for his commitment to cut the deficit in half by the end of his first term, while just ignoring the fact that Obama’s proposed budget has quadrupled (at least tripled) the projected deficit for next year. Mr. Reardon is a lot of fun to listen to right now. …