While most of Washington fixates on the $700 billion bailout package now being debated by the House Finance and Senate Banking Committees (Rep. Frank has added his own version of a bailout to the ones proposed by the administration and Sen. Christopher Dodd), our friends at Taxpayers for Common Sense are paying attention to some $600 billion in spending that Rep. David Obey, D-Ohio, concocted in secret, or, as he put it to Bloomberg News, operating “the old fashioned way by brokering agreements in order to get things done and I make no apology for it.” Taxpayers has posted searchable lists of all the earmarks in the bill.

Well worth taking a look.