Bush OK with Earmarks?
While the prez has fulminated against "earmarks," in his State of the Union address and elsewhere, the D.C. Examiner's Mark Tapscott thinks that Bush is going to let the whole earmarks "anonymous spending unrelated to a bill's ostensible purpose slipped in behind closed doors" thing ride when it comes to his Iraq supplemental bill.
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And this is noteworthy why?? Of course he'd allow anything as long as it, in some way or another, supports his war.
Looks like the writer's suspicions prooved false.