True Bi-Partisanship

I want to applaud our leaders in Congress for their most recent display of true bi-partisanship. You may think I am referring to the excellent example the women of the Senate showed in crafting the oh so temporary solution to the self-made crisis our $174,000 a year elected representatives just crafted. No, although I do doff my hat to the ladies of the Senate for showing the dead ole boys how to compromise I refer to a much better example of bipartisanship we have just been subjected to.

You see there is this damn on the Ohio River between Illinois and Kentucky. It was supposed to cost about 1/4 billion to build. So far it has cost $2B and isn't done. Illinois is home to Dick Durban, Senate Minority Whip and Kentucky as you probably know is home to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. Both senators have supported this damn, damn. Thanks to Dianne Feinstein D, CA and Lamar Alexander, R, TN the bill our esteemed president signed last night included a provision to send funds to this hole in the ground. Only a politictian, Like Harry Reid, D, NV could call this measure, "a savings to the taxpayer".

All told the legislation that saved the country from the self-inflicted crisis included $3,000,000,000.00 in pork. Included in the pork was giving the widow of Senator Frank Lautenberg, D, NJ the $174,000.00 he would have earned this year had he not died. Now while I am all for taking care of widows and orphans, Senator Lautenberg left an estate worth between $50 and $110 million to his widow. Apparently she can now afford to get the Bentley's detailed.