Today there was a vote for a "three year moratorium" on earmarks (the weak, weasley "moratorium" was supposed to be a Big Showdown). It lost. Eight GOP Senators voted against it. The eight Republicans in opposition were Sens. Bob Bennett of Utah (he’s gone as of January 1st), Thad Cochran of Mississippi, Susan Collins of Maine, Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma, Dick Lugar of Indiana, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska (we can only hope she loses to Joe Miller’s legal challenge against her vote-stealing), Richard Shelby of Alabama and George Voinovich of Ohio. Every one of those idiots needs to be gone. Can anyone say "2012 GOP PRIMARIES"?
(Read the whole ugly thing at Politico.com.)