Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Why the government could be a smidge smaller, maybe?

Via Sunlight Foundation, this is the House Ethics Subcommittee chairwoman, repressing the press over one of her earmarks*.

*An earmark is a not-so-ethical way of sneakily pushing taxpayer money to a preferred party or interest group, by smuggling it into some other spending bill, which usually has quite a noble sounding name.

Another journalistic triumph by CBS; I posted on another one recently.

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