Manchin wants spending caps. How about WV giving back its earmarks?

Manchin is such a hypocrite and a fraud:

Freshman Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) on Tuesday will announce his support for strict spending caps that put him at odds with his party's leadership and President Obama.

Manchin is expected to give a speech in his home state where he will endorse the "CAP Act," which sets a tighter spending limit than the president's budget calls for, as well as a balanced-budget amendment to the Constitution.

Here's what I say to Manchin: If you're serious, have West Virginia pay back to the federal treasury all the earmarks that Robert Byrd secured for the state. Close the federal facilities that Byrd moved to West Virginia, too:

“As part of Sen. Byrd’s interest in diversification, he has seen fit and worked through the Senate to locate federal facilities in West Virginia including the FBI fingerprinting center in Clarksburg, the Coast Guard and the first Homeland Security Training Ground in Harpers Ferry, which helped diversify the state’s economy.”

Byrd really delivered for his state -- with tax dollars. Here's a report from January of 2008:

At age 90, Sen. Robert Byrd of West Virginia has been in the Senate longer than anybody else. And he's spent much of that time as head of the most powerful spending committee, with extraordinary control over earmarks - grants of your tax dollars without the normal public review, CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports for Follow the Money.

Byrd was the first senator to rack up a total of $1 billion in earmarks for his home state.

That was in 1999. Today he's past the $3 billion mark.

Make the check payable to the U.S. Treasury.