A twofer

Yesterday in the US Senate, the Pro Tem (Senator Ted "Porkbarrel" Stevens) suggested that if the absurd "Bridge to Nowhere" which for a mere couple of hundred million dollars will connect Ketchikan with an island of 50 people threatened he would resign from the Senate, or be carried out on a stretcher (the reports say both, if that piece of pork were excised from the docket of federal spending. Senator Tom Coburn(Oklahoma) pushed an amendment that is part of the Porkbusters effort. Unfortunately, only 15 of Coburn's colleagues supported the amendment. Seemed like a pretty good deal on both counts. Stevens has been in the Senate for 37 years and looks at federal spending as some kind of augmentation to his bank account. Don't you think with the price of oil these days that the good citizens of Alaska could find a way to fund this folly? By the way the bridge to nowhere will only cost the American taxpayer 32 times what we originally paid the Russians for all of the state.