Thank Goodness the Democrats are in Charge of Congress!

...because I'm sure by now all that wasteful earmarked pork spending has stopped.

A new earmarking cycle begins this month as the House and Senate Appropriations committees reveal spending bills for the 2009 budget year that starts Oct. 1. The House committee alone has 23,438 earmark requests before it, so many that its Web site for accepting requests froze up and the deadline for receiving them had to be extended.

Err, maybe not.