Two cute little links of how disconnected Washington is...
Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, the fiscal crusader who's never met an earmark he likes, questioned Democratic Rep. Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana on the House floor Tuesday about whether the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure actually exists - since, hey, it's getting like a million bucks or something.
and...
And lest we forget, Young, who used to chair the House Transportation Committee, is responsible for the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," a proposed span connecting Ketchikan, Alaska, with the tiny island of Gravina that would have cost $315 million ? and eventually came to symbolize profligate spending under Republican rule.
"We legally steal," argued Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), defending her colleague from New Jersey.
"At this time, I do not know," the Indiana Democrat replied. "But if it does not exist, the monies could not go to it."
There is no reform, except when the press is interested and that is as rare as a honest politician.
Democrats in charge of Congress as just like Republicans in charge of Congress, the only difference is how much each gets of the earmark pie. In the end we are the ones given the shaft. Yet people will play tit for tat instead of just voting both sides out.
whats it going to take for Americans to wake up and realize that Democrat or Republican is always the wrong choice?
Republican Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona, the fiscal crusader who's never met an earmark he likes, questioned Democratic Rep. Peter J. Visclosky of Indiana on the House floor Tuesday about whether the Center for Instrumented Critical Infrastructure actually exists - since, hey, it's getting like a million bucks or something.
and...
And lest we forget, Young, who used to chair the House Transportation Committee, is responsible for the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere," a proposed span connecting Ketchikan, Alaska, with the tiny island of Gravina that would have cost $315 million ? and eventually came to symbolize profligate spending under Republican rule.
"We legally steal," argued Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-N.C.), defending her colleague from New Jersey.
"At this time, I do not know," the Indiana Democrat replied. "But if it does not exist, the monies could not go to it."
There is no reform, except when the press is interested and that is as rare as a honest politician.
Democrats in charge of Congress as just like Republicans in charge of Congress, the only difference is how much each gets of the earmark pie. In the end we are the ones given the shaft. Yet people will play tit for tat instead of just voting both sides out.
whats it going to take for Americans to wake up and realize that Democrat or Republican is always the wrong choice?
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