ABC’s Nightline did a piece on anonymous Congressional spending earmarks and about halfway through the piece they have an interview with our recently re-elected Congresswoman Virginia Foxx about an earmark she had inserted in a bill for a Teapot Museum in Sparta, NC.  Here’s some highlights from her comments:

• She says that people are only making fun of the project because it’s called the "Teapot Museum" and really it’s an art museum.  (Ed. Note: Teapots are art?)
• She also says that since this is the way the game is played (anonymous earmarks inserted in spending bills) that’s how she’s going to play it.
• She says that she’s not embarassed about asking for the funding and if the rules were different she would gladly ask for the money in a more transparent manner.

Uh huh.  Here’s my reaction to that:

• You didn’t have to insert it as an earmark. You could have publicly inserted the request for funding in the bill, but you chose not to.
• Two (or more) wrongs don’t make a right.
• Nice principles.  "I’m going to play fast and loose with taxpayer dollars because everyone else is."
• Didn’t notice you standing on the House floor screaming for reform, but maybe I missed it.

Finally, it looks like the ABC interview was conducted at the recording studio of Triad Today either before or after her debate with Roger Sharpe.  Isn’t that the same debate from which she asked the Winston-Salem Journal to be banned?  Just asking.