In an interesting twist, the three Presidential candidates all agreed on Thursday that the practice of earmarking is an inefficient way to spend tax payer money and therefore any earmarks should require a two thirds majority to be included in legisl... http://bear.politicalbear.com/2008/03/...

President Bush threatened to veto any bill that comes to him heavily laden with earmarks.  His budget... http://berniehund.com/2008/02/24/bush-...

The state of the Union.  Ahhhh. One of the last bastians of pure talking point rhetoric.  The State of the Union is written by the President's speech writers.....or outlined....then each cabinet gets it.....then the writers get at the speech again........ http://bear.politicalbear.com/2008/01/...