I'd be willing to help, too. Anything to ease the burden on our busy Congresspeople. Maybe we could think of it as "doing the jobs that Congressmen won't do."

Unfortunately, Americans for Prosperity has fallen into the trap of equating pork solely with earmarks.

I don't doubt that most earmark requests are wasteful, but there's little reason to believe that the average line item added by an individual Congressman is any worse (or any better) than the average line item added by an OMB bureaucrat or an appropriations committee.

Politicians against earmarks to make headlines and score points with fiscal conservatives. Unfortunately, many of the same politicians go back to their offices and support far larger amounts of pork in non-earmarked programs. George W. Bush complains loudly about earmarks but has added more domestic spending program than any President since Kennedy.

Edward, it's a place to start.

It's just like the illegal alien argument that we can't deport 12 million people. Maybe not (we won't know for sure unless we try), but we sure as hell could deport 1 million of them. (And let them guess which million.)

I'll volunteer to help too.