I had National People’s Radio on in the car (CO2 emitting SUV, actually) and my jaw dropped when I heard Dianne Feinstein say this in defense of earmarks (audio).
Candidly, why be an appropriator if you can’t help your state.
If that doesn’t condense so much of what just about everyone, regardless of party affiliation, despises about Washington [...]
The Wall Street Journal had an editorial that nailed the real scandal involving Tom Daschle. It isn’t that he didn’t pay his taxes. It’s the power grab engineered by big government types that made his small fortune possible. It isn’t a sleazy exception that happened despite the left’s view of government power. It is a [...]
“Unfortunately, we too often focus on the most fashionable spending options, rather than the most rational.”
Bjorn Lomborg