Arianna Huffington has a great piece on how Porkbusting is an issue which crosses the left-right divide:

This remains for me the most interesting thing about the moves to slice the pork: the way they cut across party lines. Among the competing anti-pork legislation currently jockeying for position in Congress is a Senate bill proposed by John McCain and Tom Coburn and cosponsored by Russ Feingold and Evan Bayh, another introduced by Trent Lott and Diane Feinstein, and a House bill cosponsored by Republican Jeff Flake and Democrat Harold Ford.

The bills vary in scope, strictness and the degree of transparency they require, but they all recognize that something needs to be done to derail the corporate welfare gravy train.

You know something interesting is afoot when Tom Coburn and Barack Obama -- and in the blogosphere, TruthLaidBear and Instapundit -- are all pushing the same issue.

Well, TTLB and Instapundit aren't all that far apart ideologically --- but I think it's safe to say that both Glenn and I are on a fairly different political wavelength than the Huffington Post.

Arianna sees the Republican-controlled Congress' failure to reign in earmarks and "corporate welfare" as an opportunity for the Democrats --- and she's right. As Glenn is fond of pointing out, Republican "conservatives" who get busted for living with their snouts in the public trough will get little sympathy from allegedly right-leaning types like he and I. They deserve exactly what they get --- which, preferably, will be getting booted out of office.

As Arianna puts it: "It's well past time that right vs left gave way to right vs wrong."