Oh. My. Heck! There is hope for this country yet! Maybe if they finally get it and convince the voters of it, we may have a shot at not getting totally annihilated in November:

Boehner Holds Off On Filling Appropriations Vacancy Pending Conference Discussion On Earmarks. Yesterday, House Minority Leader John Boehner told his House Republican colleagues that they were destined to remain in the political wilderness if they couldn’t kick their spending habits. Today, he took that debate one step further, announcing that the Steering Committee will not make an appointment to the vacant Appropriations Committee seat until after the House Republican retreat, where the GOP Leader has urged that a conference-wide discussion take place on earmarks.
Boehner is also expected to follow up later today at an RNC briefing, where he is expected to say, “We need to get serious about eliminating wasteful spending. Earmarks are a symptom of a much larger problem in Washington with runaway spending. We need to bring an end to wasteful earmarks, and we need to do it now.” Boehner is expected to add, “The Democratic candidates all talk as if America has failed — that if only we’d raise taxes, put our faith in government bureaucracies, and withdraw from the world stage, we’d be better off. Well I don’t buy it. And the more Americans hear that message, the more I think they’ll reject it.”

No, they have to hear a counter argument! Rip a page from Gingrich’s playbook and make that the nationwide House race message. Pledge to cut spending and tout the fact that the Democrats have given up on even playing lip service to cutting earmarks.
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