NTU’s Moylan nails GOP earmarkers

Andrew Moylan of the National Taxpayers Union has a superb oped in today’s edition of The Washington Times entitled “Republicans and pork.” Moylan lays out in excruciating detail how in recent months the Republican-controlled White House and GOP minorities in Congress failed to take advantage of golden opportunities to stop the congressional favor factory in its tracks.

Moylan notes, for instance, that “rather than taking bold action to stop earmarks altogether, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, Kentucky Republican, decided to create the most useless of reform efforts: a task force. He then compounded this error by naming one of the Senate’s most notorious porkers as a member of the working group, Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi.”

Of course, everybody in America knows that when Washington appoints a task force, nothing positive will be accomplished toward solving a problem because such a panel is nothing more than a tactic for appearing to be “doing something” while in fact doing nothing at all.