John McCain has fought entirely too many bad fights, most notably championing the execrable McCain-Feingold Speech Limitation Act that a rather ridiculous Supreme Court validated. Now, however, he is fighting the "earmark" process -- the add-on expenditures that find their way onto defense appropriations bills and highway bills -- by forcing the Senate to vote on each and every earmark. Indeed, why should the Senate and the House approve pork barrel projects for districts represented by Nancy Pelosi, Carolyn Maloney and John Murtha? Why should southwestern Missouri get computer labs at SMSU in a Defense Appropriations bill just because Roy Blunt represents the moonshine region of the Show-Me State?
A good fight that McCain and the curmudgeonly Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) are fighting.
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