By all means, RESIGN!!!

In a display of outrage, [Sen. Ted] Stevens (R-Alaska) threatened to resign from the Senate if Coburn's measure succeeded.

Well, if Stevens quit, we probably wouldn't be spending $223 million dollars on the "Bridge to Nowhere." in Ketchikan, Alaska.

Well then, QUIT, you sorry sack of pork-barrel spending, bloated government, fiscally irresponsible HACK!

Without you and your kind running this country, we were a whole helluva lot better off!

So, don't let the door hit ya where the good Lord split ya!

BUH BAH!

FULL STORY

Some in GOP regret pork-stuffed highway bill
Measure features 6,000 pet projects, including ‘Bridge to Nowhere'

By Shailagh Murray
The Washington Post
Updated: 12:37 a.m. ET Nov. 5, 2005


The highway bill seemed like such a good idea when it sailed through Congress this summer. But now Republicans who assembled the record spending package are suffering buyer's remorse.

The $286 billion legislation was stuffed with 6,000 pet projects for lawmakers' districts, including what critics denounce as a $223 million "Bridge to Nowhere" that would replace a 7-minute ferry ride in a sparsely populated area of Alaska. Usually members of Congress cannot wait to rush home and brag about such bounty -- a staggering number of parking lots, bus depots, bike paths and new interchanges for just about every congressional district in the country that added $24 billion to the overall cost of maintaining the nation's highways and bridges in the coming years.

But with spiraling war and hurricane recovery costs, the pork-laden bill has become a political albatross for Republicans, who have been promising since President Bush took office to get rid of wasteful spending.