It's not a surprise that a proposal to make earmarks in the Senate need a 2/3 vote to pass has failed, and easily. Bloomberg's Brian Faler misses the bigger point for McCain, though, when he writes the following:
The Senate's 71 to 29 vote to reject the earmark proposal was a setback for Arizona Senator McCain, who has made the fight against such spending an issue in his presidential campaign.
Yes, it failed, but it helps McCain's presidential campaign. It helps burnish his credentials as an outsider, and thus helps his appeal in another election cycle when the Republican brand is in tatters.
As an aside, this part of the article was actually pretty funny:
"This may be the last bastion in America where they don't get it, that Americans are sick and tired of the way we do business here in Washington,'' McCain said.
Um, unlike immigration, Senator?
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