John McCain To Tea Party: Grab Your Pitchforks, Come To Washington

John McCain took his crusade against earmarks to Fox & Friends this morning, where he unleashed a laundry list of his “top pork chops.” This included the study of maple syrup in Vermont (sounds tasty), a sewage pipe in North Pole, AK (sounds whimsical), and bovine tuberculosis in Michigan and Minnesota (sounds pretty legit, actually). He called such earmarks “a thumb in the eye” to voters, so he proposed to them a plan of action: “Grab the pitchforks and come to Capitol Hill, Tea Partiers.”

Gretchen Carlson asked about a different strategy thought up by Sen. Jim Demint, one free of agricultural utensils: why not demand the bills to be read out loud on the Senate floor? He said he planned on doing that too. But, honestly, that sounds way less fun than having an army of pitchfork-toting conservatives storm the Capitol.

You can watch McCain discuss his various strategies to end earmarks in the Fox News clip below.

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