A Good First Step On Earmarks

It isn’t exactly unilateral disarmament, but House members from both parties have voluntarily put down one of their big guns in the annual battle over $1 trillion in federal discretionary spending. They deserve some credit for it. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and other Democratic leaders, with the support of their party’s caucus, decreed last week that there will be no more budgetary “earmarks” for private for-profit corporations, though lawmakers will …