2008-03-10 GOP Pork, Imperiled By McCain

2008-03-10 \John McCain\Robert Novak\US Republican Party http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/09/AR2008030901428.html GOP Pork, Imperiled By McCain by Robert Novak: &ldquo;The congressional Republican establishment, with its charade of pretending to crack down on budget earmarks while in fact preserving its addiction to pork, faces embarrassment this week when the Democratic-designed budget is brought to the Senate floor. The GOP's presumptive presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain, is an uncompromising pork buster with no use for the evasions by Republican addicts on Capitol Hill.&rdquo;   