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August 10, 2005BELTWAY BLOGROLL
BillBlast: Pork Patrol
President Bush signed a nearly $284 billion highway bill into law today. The project is loaded with more than 6,000 earmarks for projects in lawmakers' states and districts.
The prevalence of all that "pork" prompted The Club for Growth to unsuccessfully urge a veto of the legislation. But the group remains focused on the issue. For the past several days, the blog has featured a steady diet of pork posts, including those critical of Rep. Don "Porkchop" Young, ferry boats in California and a horse-riding trail in Virginia.
Government Bytes, the blog of the National Taxpayers Union, also decried the earmarks. And Citizens Against Government Waste continues its fight against pork -- but not on its Waste Blog, which was closed for repairs back in May and still has not been revived.
Maybe the group should have lobbied for one of those earmarks to fix its small piece of the information highway.
UPDATE: The liberal Daily Kos also takes note of the bill-signing, leading with the kicker "Because you can never have too much pork" and then taking this shot at Bush: "[I]f the money appropriated by this bill does some good, that's wonderful. But the special interests involved is just more of what we have come to expect out of Bush-approved legislation."
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