9,000 Earmarks

Do you need $200,000 for tatoo removal? How about money for Maine lobster research? How about $473,000 for the National Council of La Raza, a radical hispanic group that would like to remove the southwest from the United States and return it to Mexico? All that and more can be found in the Omnibus Spending Bill : During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks. “We need earmark reform,” Obam