corrente

A Senate committee chairman has written senators seeking their support for a troubled government-wide spending bill and pointedly listing the projects the measure includes for each lawmaker's home state.

"The subcommittees have tried to accommodate your priorities and concerns in this bill," read the Jan. 6 letter by Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Ted Stevens, R-Alaska. "Attached you will find a list of projects that may be of particular interest to you."
(AP)

Sure, pork is what it is, and the Dems aren't exactly Vegans, but aren't the Republicans supposed to be for small government and fiscal responsibility? Fat chance!

Oh year, the "troubled" spending bill is the one the Republicans couldn't manage to pass last October, when the fiscal year began, although they did manage to have a made-for-TV filibuster, and a debate about whether to take FDR's image off the dime. And aren't the Republicans supposed to competent and well-organized?