House Republican freshmen suddenly think maybe earmarks aren't such a bad idea

House GOP freshmen Oy. (Oink?)

Hypocrisy alert: House Republican freshmen are begging their leaders to bring back a certain type of earmark so that they can help companies back home in an election year.

In a letter to Speaker John Boehner and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor, 65 House Republican freshmen ' or roughly three-quarters of the class ' asked that the House consider a miscellaneous tariff bill jampacked with special provisions to suspend duties on various foreign goods, even though it runs counter to the earmark ban Republicans campaigned on in 2010 and instituted when they took power.

The push is a sign that freshmen who arrived in Washington talking up their anti-pork principles are now worried about what ' if anything ' they'll have to show constituents when they hit the campaign trail.

Republicans? Tea partiers? Hypocrites? Try to contain your shock.

Of course they're worried about what they're going to show constituents to justify their reelection. They've spent two years taking vacations, trying in every way possible to repeal Obamacare (27 votes and counting), and coming up with new and diabolical ways to punish women and screw the poor. When have they had time to do anything to show the folks back home?

So their solution? The oldest one known to politics: Bring home the pork. There's your tea party revolution.