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Arguing for a simple, across the board elimination of federal earmarks has recently trumped mom and apple pie as the easiest americanpoliticaltrick in the book. Even the greenest pundit can get the froth bubbling at the corners of his mouth and rile up the masses with calls for "an end to wasteful, pork barrel spending!"So-called anti-pork crusaders would have you believe that every earmark is a "bridge to nowhere" and that every taxpayer struggling to pay her bills could be sitting pretty if only Congress would do away with earmarks altogether. The truth, as usual, is much more complicate...