It’s easy as pie to be ideologically pure just so long you don’t have to govern.

That is why you should never vote for a libertarian or a tea party member.  You elect them and they get backpedaling blisters on their heels within one term.  And I have proof of that.

In a letter to Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, 65 House Republican freshmen — or roughly three-quarters of the class — asked that the House consider a miscellaneous tariff bill jampacked with special provisions to suspend duties on various foreign goods, even though it runs counter to the earmark ban Republicans campaigned on in 2010 and instituted when they took power.

So, it gets to election time and the tea party freshmen have not brought home the bacon.   They want to slaughter the hawg before the voters head to the polls.

But, there’s that pesky problem of promising no earmarks.  So, they are doing the Republican thing:  looking for loopholes in their promises.  You know, like Newt taught them to do with women and Mitt teaches them to do with … well hell, everydamnthing.

Thanks to David for the heads-up.