Thank you very much George Will. George, a right-wing columnist faces the music today. He quotes Jeff Flake, Arizona Republican saying, [brackets are mine]:

"With the number and dollar value of earmarks [pork spending], more than quadrupling over the past decade, pork-barrel spending has become an unfortunate hallmark of our Republican majority."

The Republicans are the party of small government when they are the opposition, but they are for four times as much government as the democrats when they are the majority. I'm glad people are beginning to see that. Wasn't the budget balanced when Mr. Clinton was president?