Hypocrisy! There's Plenty To Go Around

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/284148.php

MSNBC Notices Earmark Hypocrisy... of Republicans

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/03/11/1832273.aspx

Now, when I started this blog, I promised myself that I would write more original stuff.
But, I just can't beat Ace's snark:

Of course, those calling for an end to earmarks do in fact want an end to earmarks; but if no one else is giving theirs up, it's difficult to punish one's constituents alone.

If only there were some office holder, perhaps elected nationally, perhaps in some kind of "executive" capacity, who presided over the government and could block the excesses of congressmen with a single statement of negation. Let's call such a hypothetical power a "veto," from the Latin for "I say nay," and let us term my proposed nationally-elected presiding executive officer a "President," for lack of a better term.