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Politics : PIG Roast. Putting Pork Barrel spending in it's place
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From: Tadsamillionaire9/2/2007 6:23:42 PM
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Pork groaners from Flake

Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) routinely derides congressional earmarks with his signature eye-rolling puns, adding insult to injury for the lawmakers who sponsor them.

* On $100,000 for the Hunting and Fishing Museum of Pennsylvania in Tionesta: "I have never had a hard time fishing for earmarks that seem to be fiscally irresponsible, but this one seemed to be a particularly easy catch."

On $6.3 million for a wind demonstration project: "This process of challenging earmarks on the floor is often described as tilting at windmills, so I suppose it is only proper that we start today with an earmark for the wind demonstration project."

* On $300,000 for the Bronx Council on the Arts: "I would ask members of this body: 'How would you define irony?' I define it as providing a federal earmark to the Bronx Council on the Arts, which is advertising an event called Pay to Play. . . . It is sadly ironic that we are funding artistic parodies of congressional earmarking with earmarks."

* On $100,000 for the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center in Pennsylvania: "I feel like Bill Murray in 'Groundhog Day.' Every year, it's the same thing: Congress passes spending bills loaded with pork projects."

* On $500,000 for a swimming pool in Banning, Calif: "I know the desert can get awful hot, and there is nothing better than taking a swim. But I do not know why we ought to give the federal taxpayer a bath every time somebody wants a swimming pool."

* On $150,000 for the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky: "It would be nice if Congress started acting more fiscally responsible."

* On $500,000 for the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Ill.: "This pork project is enough to give anyone indigestion."
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