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"There will be no earmarks in the stimulus. Nada. Zero. Zilch."

~ An unnamed spokesman for Senate Majority leader, Harry Reid, answering reporters' questions about the $825 billion stimulus package.

"The majority leader might have made the comment himself, had he not been busy reassuring Nevadans that he'd just go around the ban by leaning on Obama agencies to deliver dollars to his state's projects.  Meanwhile, Mr. Reid is making, as his first present to the president, a pork-riddled public lands bill that includes $3.5 million for a city's birthday party, $5 million for botanical gardens and $3 million for a ‘road to nowhere' in (where else?) Alaska."

Kimberley Strassel writing in the Jan. 16th Wall Street Journal.

Is it any wonder why approval ratings for many elected officials are so low? (Here's our take on what President Obama needs to do to get our country back on track.)

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