[Yaelle]

Show me your perfect angel candidate.

Wish Santorum had put Los Angeles transportation together. NIMBY killed it.

[muawiyah]

In general Santorum was a Senator from one of the larger states. The rule in the disposition of government largess is that unless the big state Senators go after it the small state Senators get it all.

This was going on right up to the current Congress. Nothing new to it.

Frankly, some of the complaint about the practice of "earmarking" arises from individuals who know that if all the capital projects were left up to the President (acting through the Executive agencies) they would get the project before the Senator's homestate got the same project.

We might as why the Executive would prioritize other projects? Well, maybe a cabinet secretary (presumably one of his buddies) wanted it in his hometown. Or, like LBJ, he wanted the Space Program Headquartered in Houston!

There's probably enough Executive branch intrigue in all of this that folks who complain about Earmarking probably ought to be checked for their own non-meritorious plans.

[Thane_Banquo]

All of this pales in comparison to the fact that Romney created Obamacare.

[Tribune7]

You keep demanding perfection you are going to end up with Romney.

Romney ain't perfection.