BUT IT HAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT NAME!:

Lawmakers Finance Pet Projects Without Earmarks (RON NIXON, 12/29/10, NY Times)

No one was more critical than Representative Mark Steven Kirk when President Obama and the Democratic majority in the Congress sought passage last year of a $787 billion spending bill intended to stimulate the economy. And during his campaign for the Illinois Senate seat once held by Mr. Obama, Mr. Kirk, a Republican, boasted of his vote against “Speaker Pelosi’s trillion-dollar stimulus plan.”

Though Mr. Kirk and other Republicans thundered against pork-barrel spending and lawmakers’ practice of designating money for special projects through earmarks, they have not shied from using a less-well-known process called lettermarking to try to direct money to projects in their home districts.

Pork is governance.

Posted by Orrin Judd at December 29, 2010 10:51 AM