I can't recall being so pleased for a very long time myself, between the GOP Senators actually growing a spine and even total hard-over Obamabot Claire McCaskill standing up for eliminating earmarks!*
*By the way, the defenders of earmarks including some GOP stalwarts like Sen. Inhofe point out that they amount to a relatively minor part of the total Federal budget, which is technically true. However, the multimillion dollar highway project for Inhofe in Oklahoma that 'Doesn't represent that big a slice,' even with 500-odd other similar ones added to it, are the currency to buy votes for trillions of dollars in expenditures on other programs, and this institutionalized corruption HAS GOT TO GO!