A few senators with common sense struggle against the tide to try to curtail big governemnt spending. Fruitlessly.
That's when Patty Murray spoke up. She fiercely defended the dominant congressional ideology that many wrongs make everything right. She made it quite clear that were her sculpture park pork singled out, she'd attack other "earmarked" items. Those marked for other senators.
Very, very frustrating.
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Frustrating indeed.
Though I would have thought that a more balanced method of proposing cutting would have been to go through the states and propose a bill with cuts from every state. It doesn't appear that is what happened, though I could be wrong. They point out cuts is a few states, but nothing comprehensive.
But then, the senators that screeched the loudest were obviously the most unreasonable. Can Murray actually justify a sculpture garden as a better value than repairing the infrastructure of Louisiana? Of course not. But why should her constituents suffer for not having a scrulpture garden? /sarcasm
So we should read it this way. Those senators who are screeching over cuts to their pork projects would prefer the deficit spiral out of control rather than control their own useless pet projects.
As for Senator Stevens, they should have carried him out on a stretcher, and in a straight jacket. I'm willing to bet that his state could afford those bridges with no help from the federal government. Just cut back on the oil payouts to the citizens for a little bit and they'd have more than enough money.
Man, wouldn't be great if Senators did start attacking other's pork projects. I would absolutely love to see a knockdown, drag-out fight of Mutual Assured Destruction of Pork!
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No, Mom. Just a few more minutes. I don't want to go to school today.
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