Palin the "Reformer"

Sarah Palin has joined John McCain in his call to end congressional earmarks as a viable economic policy. I am in agreement with them that all federal spending needs to come out of legislative action on the floor rather than an earmark tacked on by a powerful legislator. However only a fool would think this is going to do anything to help our economy. Earmarks only make 0.6% of annual federal budget, that's right less than 1 percent.

The real humor in this is to hear Sarah Palin describe herself as a reformer. She is known as one of the largest purveyor's of pork out of all the governors. Here is an example from TPM of some of her "reform."

According to Alaska's 2009 catalog of earmark requests the state's sea life are in great need of federal money. As Politico points out, Palin's office requested $2 million in federal monies to study crab mating habits; $494,900 for the recreational halibut harvest and $3.2 million for seal genetics research.

Wow, she sounds like a real reformer. How she is able to hold a straight face on this one is a testament to how cold of a politician she is.

With this must pork coming out of her office no wonder the McCain camp thought Obama was referring to her when he said you can lipstick on a pig...