GOP Flake Out

WSJ.com: “GOP Flake Out” House Republicans deny Rep. Jeff Flake’s bid for a seat on the powerful Appropriation’s Committee:

Mr. Flake is the scourge of earmarks and the last person Members of either party want on Congress’s main spending committee. He would have been a whistle-blower for taxpayers, in particular against the powerful Democrats who get the most earmarks now that they are in the majority, such as Pennsylvania’s Jack Murtha. But Republican spenders couldn’t tolerate someone who would call out their pork too.