Accountability Sucks
April 5th, 2006 at 2:03 pm by Preston Taylor HolmesPoor Trent Lott. The Porkbusters gang is causing him to flip his lid.
“I’ll just say this about the so-called porkbusters. I’m getting damn tired of hearing from them. They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina. We in Mississippi have not asked for more than we deserve. We’ve been very reasonable.”
Nearly $300 million worth of repairs to the line were just completed in January, financed by CSX Railroad and its insurance company. No word yet on how CSX or its insurance company feel about the plan favored by Lott and his fellow Mississippi Republican Senator Thad Cochran to tear up the tracks and replace them with a highway to serve the heavily populated coastal region.
Coburn thinks the project is a perfect example of the sort of wasteful spending that has poisoned the national political process. He told AP:
“It is ludicrous for the Senate to spend $700 million to destroy and relocate a rail line that is in perfect working order, particularly when it recently underwent a … repair.”
Citizens Against Government Waste’s Tom Schatz is no more impressed than Coburn, telling AP:
“For $700 million, the Congress could certainly do a lot more to help people that are still without homes. It’s certainly unclear what this has to do with an emergency. It sounds like a wish list from the senators from Mississippi.”
CAGW just released the latest version of its annual Pig Book.
It was Lott who last week used a legislative technicality to kill a Coburn amendment to another spending bill that would have required the Office of Management and Budget in the White House to establish a comprehensive public database of all government grants, including extensive information about the recipients and the purposes of each grant.
Well, Trent, if you and your GOP buddies walked the walk instead of just talking the “smaller government, fiscal restraint” talk, you wouldn’t be having a fiscal colonoscopy. Personally, I hope the scope goes all the way up your G.I. tract and out your lying mouths.
(via Insty)
April 5th, 2006 at 4:53 pm
Yeah, Trent! Word!! And your Barber Shop Quartet sucks balls, too!
April 5th, 2006 at 5:56 pm
Yea, but for a colonoscopy to do any good, you got to clear all of the s**t out first to see where the problems are. Ain’t enough laxative on the planet to clean the crap out of Congress.
April 5th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
Yeah, score one for fiscal responsibility.
Would it be too much to say, “OK, we have 1.2 trillion to spend this year, whatever’s left you can bring home to your states. But no way we’re gonna borrow money to fund your pet projects?”
April 5th, 2006 at 10:13 pm
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February 1st, 2007 at 3:01 pm
Is Duke Cunningham no worse than Trent Lott, or is Trent Lott no better than Duke Cunnigham? You decide…
“I’ll just say this about the so-called porkbusters. I’m getting damn tired of hearing from them. They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina. We in Mississippi have not asked for more than we deserve. We’ve been very reasonable.”……