Setting Aside Pre-Election Pandering, The Wall Street Journal Dubs Blunt "Senator Earmark"

Way back in the heady days of spring , Roy Blunt praised himself for supporting a one-year moratorium on earmarks, calling it "a critical step toward cutting spending."  His election year stunt fooled a few, including the Associated Press' here in Missouri, which declared that Blunt was joining Robin Carnahan in a "movement against earmarks."  But the notion that Blunt was part of any serious "movement against earmarks" was as preposterous then as it is was now, considering his career as a  "proud and prolific earmarker" in Congress.

And now that Election Day has come and gone, the Republican cheerleaders on the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal are giving up the charade entirely, and are celebrating the Senator-elect as "Senator Earmark."