Porkers of the Month

This is disgusting. Republicans are supposed to be the party of “smaller government.” Lott and Cochran seem to have forgotten that.

Citizens Against Government Waste
has named Mississippi Senators Thad Cochran (R) and Trent Lott (R) Porkers of the Month
for adding $700 million for the “railroad to nowhere” to the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2006 (H.R. 4929). The Senate’s version of the bill for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and hurricane aid on the Gulf Coast costs $109 billion. President Bush requested $92.2 billion, and the House passed a $91.9 billion version in March. The “railroad to nowhere,” which would use taxpayer funds to purchase and replace a private rail line with a highway benefiting Gulf Coast casinos, is one of dozens of earmarks costing billions of dollars tacked onto the Senate bill.