From the Rocky Mountain News earlier this week:”An amendment to S. 2349 (Legislative Transparency and Accountability Act of 2006) proposed by Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla, and Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., would have opened the earmarking process to public scrutiny. Lott killed the amendment on a procedural technicality, ruling that it wasn’t relevant to an ethics bill.”

Not relevant?

If the GOP is in trouble, it deserves to be.