ABC News on the $4 billion in earmarks and names more Democrats than Republicans as the culprits

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Today's ABC World News on Charles Gibson's final month as anchor included a report revealing that Congress spent nearly $4 billion in earmarks for this year's budget. For a whole bunch of silly pet projects and gizmos, reporter Jonathan Karl named these Congress members as the culprits:

5 Democrats:
Rep. Jerold Nadler (NY)
Sen. Tom Harkin and Rep. Leonard Boswell (IA)
Sens. Daniel Akaka and Dan Inouye (HI)

However, Karl noted that two Republicans, Mississippi Senators Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker, had two of the biggest earmarks out of this 4 billi, specifically $8 million for a tiny little airport in their home state.

So what's worse, five Democrats who are part of the problem, or two greedy Republicans taking a big chunk of the cake? Conservatives would use this as an opportunity to get on Free Republic or wherever and blast those "tax n' spend" Democrats. But the reality is, it took two Republican senators in one deeply red state to add a big amount of waste to our national debt and yearly deficit.