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11/24/2003 Archived Entry: "GOP Dishes Out Pork In Growing Portions"

WELL BACON DOES GO WITH EVERYTHING AFTER ALL...: In today's Washington Post, Dan Morgan and Helen Dewar report on the massive amount of pork-barrel spending the Bush administration is engaging in.

But a rising tide of GOP spending on home-district projects is making those Democrats of yesteryear look like mere pikers of pork, according to a 15-page study just released by the minority staff of the House Appropriations Committee.

The study finds that the number of home-state projects earmarked in various bills has skyrocketed under the GOP, despite the party's rhetorical commitment to reining in a profligate federal government.

Moreover, it contends, Republicans "have opened up broad new areas of government to the practice of earmarking that were previously not subject to earmarks."

If the Republicans have an Achilles heel, this is definately it.

Read on.