(Since our host is an aficiando of typos, I feel like mentioning that I initially typed “hole” rather than “whole” which would probably be a good description of certain segments of domestic spending.)

Re dirt: I guess my humor sensors were off, sorry.

As for why progressive netroots / Democratic leaning blogs haven’t made as big deal of pork as the Republican leaning blogs of late: Seems pretty straightforward to me. The progressive netroots have a lot else to focus on (the War in Iraq, Katrina, etc., etc.) The right doesn’t anymore. I don’t remember hearing that much about pork from the right until last year, when the conservative mood started to turn sour on Bush, conflating Iraq with Afghanistan stopped working, etc. Even if we just focus on the financial situation, there are three main reasons for the tide of red ink that is the US budget:
1) domestic spending,
2) the cost of the war in Iraq (well into 12 digits, may yet hit 13 digits despite pre-war promises that it would stay at 11 digits)
and 3) tax cuts mostly for the wealthy.
For fairly obvious reasons, the right doesn’t want to talk about 2) and 3) (at least from the point of view of the federal deficit). So they focus on 1), especially the easiest target (earmarks). The left agrees on 1) they just also have a lot else they want to talk about it.

But really, I’d rather just celebrate the bipartisan nature of this venture, sadly so rare on the blogosphere.

Traffic-wise, porkbusters.org has been supported almost exclusively by co-founder Glenn Reynolds.

The site may be shooting itself in the foot, tho. I have twice sent email to the address listed on the site with a request to please, please, post a link to the site’s archives.

If I can’t access the archives of the site, what’s to allow me to further explore the contents of the site? You know, and discover what’s there? Or follow up on a comment thread for something I posted a comment to a while back? Or maybe even posting a link from my own site in order to add my own three droplets of flow to the torrent of Instapundit’s?

I’ve received no response to the emails. Nor have I seen any change to the site. So let Glenn carry the traffic. The site on its own invites no further exploration beyond the single home page (okay, and the two featured links that are currently at the top of that page.)

You\’re right about it being a bipartisan issue — and the selfishness when it comes to one\’s own district — but the progressive netroots haven\’t made much of an issue about it. I doubt they will, though I have a hard time putting my finger on exactly why.