Bravo, DeMint

SENATOR ABSOLUTELY CORRECT TO STOP “EARMARKING”

FITSNews – April 30, 2007 – True, watching U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint in action is a lot like watching ice melt. We’ve met statues with more spunk, corpses with more charisma and potatoes with more personality. In fact, if John C. Calhoun was scheduled to debate DeMint tomorrow, we’d put our money on Calhoun – and he’s been dead for 157 years. Of course if DeMint was debating INSERT NAME HERE tomorrow, we’d put our money on INSERT NAME HERE. Even if INSERT NAME HERE happened to be a statue. Or a potato.

But in spite of all that, today we’re showing some love to the man who in some pictures looks a lot like Rev. Jimmy Lee Farnsworth from “Fletch Lives.”

Why? Because while the rest of Washington, D.C. continues to seek government funding for non-essential pork barrel projects via a mechanism that has proven glaringly susceptible to bribes, kickbacks and all manner of corruption, DeMint today said he’s not going to join the pork fest. By rejecting “earmarks” – or lawmakers’ often anonymous personal requests for pet funding projects – DeMint is taking a bold, lonely stand against the gravy train in D.C. that treats taxpayers like second class whores. So nice work, Jimbo. Or should we say Jimmy Lee.