Good for CNN

CNN hits the Democratic Congress for failing to follow through with its promise to "bring transparency and openness to the budget process and to the use of earmarks." They called all House offices to ask for a list of earmarks.

Staffers for only 31 of the 435 members of the House contacted by CNN between Wednesday and Friday of last week supplied a list of their earmark requests for fiscal year 2008, which begins on October 1, or pointed callers to Web sites where those earmark requests were posted. Of the remainder, 68 declined to provide CNN with a list, and 329 either didn't respond to requests or said they would get back to us, and didn't.

Most interesting:

Seven members of the House said they had no earmark requests.

I'd like to know who those seven are.