Today's Battle Of The Midgets Update

clipped from porkbusters.org Is your senator a friend or foe of earmark reform? Check the data and see where your state's two senators rank (higher ratings are better). If you think they should do better, tell them. And if you live in a state that has one or a couple of senators who score highly on the Index, let them know you appreciate their efforts. Either way, let your senators know where you stand, so they'll know where they should stand the next time the Senate clerk calls their name.

Courtesy of the Demopublicans. I guess if you compare the Democrat graph to the Republican one you could make the case that the Repubs are only venal instead of outright corrupt like the Dems.

But we truly ignore Jefferson at our own peril:

In 1821, with truly remarkable foresight, Mr. Jefferson wrote in a letter to Macon that 'our Government is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation first [i.e., centralisation] and then corruption, its necessary consequence.'