PORKBUSTERS UPDATE: The Examiner editorializes:

Look closely at Capitol Hill today, and you will see a crumbling fortress manned by a motley collection of old bulls and eager young back benchers, most of whom seem blindly determined to fight to the last earmarked tax dollar against the citizens steadily surrounding them.

As the encirclement tightens amid increasingly fervent demands that the defenders give up and let the sun shine in, its list of grievances about earmarks keeps growing longer: . . .

What is especially distressing is that these are only a handful of the more than 32,000 earmarks House Appropriations Committee Chairman Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., says his panel has received in recent months from members of the House from both parties.

Obviously, Congress didn’t get the message last November, so the encirclement will only get tighter.

Let’s hope. Read the whole thing for further examples.