The Democrats’ Broken Promises

Over at the Club for Growth, Andrew Roth has a good roundup of conservative legislators calling for the President to veto the omnibus.  It’s worth reading them all, but one good point that Sen. DeMint makes is that the bill very clearly fails to fulfill the Democrats’ early promise to cut the number of earmarks in half:

“Once again, Democrats have broken their promises. Democrats promised to cut earmarks in half, but this bill doesn’t even come close. In fact, this omnibus could spend more on pork than any appropriations bill in history. Americans want us to end the wasteful and corrupting earmark system that helps special interests at the expense of taxpayers. This bill is earmark business as usual and it deserves to be rejected.” —Sen. [Jim] DeMint

One can hope…