Taxpayers for Common Sense has comprised a list of the amount of earmarks each member of Congress accumulated in this year’s spending bills. Obscene doesn’t even begin to describe the waste. GOP Congressmen Bill Young (FL-10) and Jerry Lewis (CA-41) were the worst offenders in the House with earmarks in excess of $100 million! The Senate was even more repulsive with four GOP Senators breaking the $100 million mark and going as high as almost $400 million! Those four Senators were Ted Stevens (AK), Thad Cochran (MS), Kit Bond (MO), Richard Shelby (AL).

The following legislators requested zero earmarks:

House

• John Boehner (R-OH-8)
• Paul Broun (R-GA-10)
• Eric Cantor (R-VA-7)
• Jeff Flake (R-AZ-6)
• Vito Fossella (R-NY-13)
• Jeb Hensarling (R-TX-5)
• John Kline (R-MN-2)
• John Shadegg (R-AZ-3)
• Lee Terry (R-NE-2)

Senate

• Tom Coburn (R-OK)
• Jim DeMint (R-SC)
• Russ Feingold (D-WI)
• John McCain (R-AZ)
• Claire McCaskill (D-MO)

You can view the total spreadsheet here.

Republican presidential front-runner John McCain courted the wary conservative wing of his party Friday after winning the endorsement of former bitter White House rival Mitt Romney. “He and I share the same principles, values and goals,” McCain said of the former Massachusetts governor who two weeks ago was accusing him of campaign dirty tricks.

“He ran a tough campaign. He got millions of votes in the Republican primaries. And I hope that his endorsement will convince many of those Republican voters to support my candidacy,” McCain told CNN television late Thursday.

AP

On that evening round table discussion show that Brit Hume does on Fox News with William Kristol, Mort Kondrake, etc. there was discussion of Romney possibly becoming the VP selection for McCain despite the fighting back and forth they did during the race.