New group, same pork

[utvolpj]

When will anyone up there ever learn? I am surprised anyone thought things would change.

WASHINGTON - Congress has loaded up President Bush's request for "emergency" spending on the Iraq war with more than $20 billion in "pork" for members' districts.

Money for peanut storage in Georgia, spinach growers in California, menhaden in the Atlantic Ocean and even more office space for the lawmakers themselves is included in what has ballooned into a $124 billion war bill.

But they did it so we can too.

"They are a strange group to talk about buying votes," Hoyer chuckled. "This is the crowd that took pork barrel spending to new levels of irresponsibility."

http://www.examiner.com/a-619204~Congress_loads_up__20_billion_in_pork.html

 

[CSpindizzy]

Peanut storage....more than likely from my Republican Senator who LOVES ag pork. I guess he figures the Dems won't mind so he can keep slipping it in.

 

[utvolpj]

They'll add it and trade a vote.