It sounds to me like your dodging. No one said the Stim didn't do it's job. There's no way some of the examples given could be characterized as anything other than pork......not too mention the omnibus spending bill of $410 billion passed by the house shortly after the Stim Bill. They saved all the pork for that one, so it's a bit disingenuous to crow about no earmarks in the Stim Bill.