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Earmarks and the Stimulus Bill

Instapundit found this 1/9/2009 on corner.nationalreview.com

Count me as unimpressed by Obama's pledge to keep the stimulus bill free of earmarks. I get why Obama is doing it--it's important symbolically and some Republicans seem to believe opposition to earmarks is the sine qua non of conservative economic policy, so Obama's move is shrewd politics. But ...