"Four Congressmen from Georgia - Paul Broun, Nathan Deal, Tom Price and Lynn Westmoreland - have publicly taken a pledge not to seek nor sponsor an earmark for one year. Some Republicans believe the party lost control of Congress in 2006 because of the abandonment of fiscally conservative principles and the record level of pork spending by a GOP controlled Congress. I will submit to you that this is very true to an extent. Republicans, despite their best efforts, cannot completely dismiss an unpopular war in Iraq as a part of their electoral struggles..."

Here is my column for this week. I wrote about earmarks, the "currency of corruption," according to Jeff Flake.

You can also add John Linder to the list of Georgia Congressman abstaining from earmarks for a year. He hasn't issued a press release showing it, but his office confirmed that when I called to get information for the article.

You can get links to previous columns here.