Earmarks investigation aside, Obama still king of the hill

The Washington Post investigated earmarks requested by current members of Congress, and a number of those earmarks raise serious questions about ethics—not in the sense of official ‘ethics,’ but real ones, the kind that resonate with Main Street. What many people may have forgotten: President Barack Obama’s astronomical earmarks during his brief time as a junior senator from Illinois.

Current members of Congress have admittedly directed US taxpayer dollars to questionable projects. Among them:

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Fiscal fiasco: Time for a citizen audit of the federal government

President Barack Obama’s fiscal commission has devolved into a fiscal fiasco. Most members of the commission did just what I predicted they would do—they performed as bureaucrats. Judging by information released so far, the members simply don’t get the message Americans sent in the midterm election. And apparently nor does Congress.

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