Making good on a promise he made earlier in the week, Senator Obama has made all of his budget requests, a total of $300 million dollars public. President Bush, threatening to use just the fourth veto of his entire administration is citing the amount of pork in the current budget as his reason, apparently he really misses that line item veto he had in Texas.

I personally don’t have the same tax payer penchant to see the death of earmarks and if people would realize those evil earmarks have built plenty of the things in their states they would calm down as well. That being said, I do think the process should require MoCs to disclose their earmarks. This adds transparency to the process and requires candidates to respond to questions from voters about money they are requesting. I see no reason why this, or any act of Congress with the exception of the most sensitive national security issues should not be revealed to the public.