Harry Reid has been very outspoken in his stance against a moratoreum on earmarks, otherwise known as pork. He is worried (and probably rightly so), what without the ability to stuff appropriation bills with billions of dollars in unneccessary spending, their may not be enough of an incentive for Congressman to vote in favor of it. Reid has spoken on the issue quite a few times, however last night it appears he has finally gone off the deep end.

“As we look back in history, the Founding Fathers would be cringing to hear people talking about eliminating earmarks,” Reid said, noting that the Founders dictated in the Constitution that all spending should originate in Congress, not the executive branch.

More ridiculous words have never been spoken. Does Harry Reid honestly believe that Thomas Jefferson would be turning in his grave because Congress did not spend $500,000 on museum of glass, or that Alexander Hamilton would be disgusted that Congress did not spend $1 million on a Woodstock museum? The truth is the founding fathers would cringe at the sight of what their Republic has become.

Ed Morrissey has more:

The argument itself suggests Reid should attend a civics course. The power of appropriations does not mean earmarking. It means appropriations, which involves floor votes on fully-disclosed spending. Congress appropriates money for federal spending, which means funding agencies that share power between the branches. While an argument could have been made at one time that earmarks would preserve some Congressional prerogative over the direction of agency efforts, Congress itself has dissipated any moral authority they had for that argument in a quarter-century orgy on the taxpayer dime — and that applies to both parties.

Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin may be turning over in their graves, but it’s because the leader of the Senate they created has no idea what the hell Congress actually does. According to his performance in the last year, he apparently thinks it has responsibility for lobbyist payoffs and surrendering to terrorists.

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