benj –you’re shooting yourself in the foot –read your last sentence, tell me what you see. I see a tale of a governor whose state is one of 50 whose people by and large would like to get all the earmark$ they can get. I see a governor practical enough to know she has to have public support or she can’t reform a durn thing. I see cutting 54 earmarks down to 31 as precisely the sort of leading, sheparding along, incremental educating and difference-splitting that is the very art of effective political leadership. Try to reform too much too fast, and end without influence and with no reforms at all. Now, should i go find something on Obama and paste it here and make you waste your time answering it, as you have made me waste mine? Naah, i won’t do that to you –too easy.