It would be funny if …

John Brummett makes sport of John Boozman — the scourge of earmarks — now not fully certain what do since his own party, from whom he takes all his orders, is split on the wisdom of doing away with member-designated federal spending projects that help the home folks. (Spending that is a tiny fraction of 1 percent of the federal budget.)

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