Friday, September 21, 2007

How to get your pet projects passed, without the bother of having people vote on it..

We know all about earmarks (pet projects, often pork-laden, than legislators put into a bill before its final passage). But Rep Young (R-Alaska) has apparently done one better: Added an earmark after the bill's passage, but before being signed by the President.

What a timesaver!

TPM Muckraker is trying to figure out, exactly, how that could even happen. And they are getting stonewalled.

But that's not all! The recipients of the earmark (a Florida county) didn't want the money in the first place, and voted to send it back. (Imagine that--doing the right thing!). Of course, in the "no good deed goes unpunished, they got their hands slapped.

It is important, I think, to keep in mind that this all was done by a member of the "small government" Republican Party.

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