Romney inicia una petición online para apoyar la prohibición de earmarks

Hay un consenso más o menos general entre los potenciales candidatos republicanos a la hora de apoyar la propuesta de Jim DeMint de prohibir los gastos que se añaden a las leyes para proyectos particulares (la primera maniobra del Tea Party en la conferencia republicana obligando a los senadores a retratarse) pero Mitt Romney ha tomado la delantera a los demás presidenciables y ha habilitado en la web de su comité de acción política una petición online de apoyo a los esfuerzos de DeMint.

(...) Senator DeMint is courageously standing on conviction with his much-needed proposal to ban earmarks, which will curb wasteful spending and restore accountability to the way Congress spends taxpayer dollars. We all need to recognize that Washington can’t responsibly begin to address out-of-control debt and deficits until the practice of cramming earmarks into spending bills is stopped. While earmarks are not the only cause of our budget proplems (sic), they have come to symbolize what’s wrong with Washington. What was once accepted as the normal way of doing business has to be re-examined in light of our $13 trillion national debt. I encourage all Republicans to embrace Senator DeMint’s earmark ban and send a powerful message that we will no longer tolerate business as usual on Capitol Hill. (...)