Pork

I get requests from the GOP almost weekly asking for a handout. Just got my 6th McCain letter in the last two months. Needless to say, after the requests are torn up, they are tossed into the large, wide-mouth, white filing cabinet that's under my kitchen sink.

Here's some guys I would actually consider contributing to, atleast based of their remarks on the joke of a farm (pork) bill.

Rep. Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, at age 38 and having served less than five terms, did not leap over a dozen of his seniors to become ranking Republican on the House budget Committee by bashing GOP leaders. But an angry Ryan last Wednesday delivered unscripted remarks on the House floor as the farm bill neared passage: "This bill is an absence of leadership. This bill shows we are not leading."

Ryan's fellow reformer, 45-year-old Jeff Flake of Arizona, in his fourth term, is less cautious about defying the leadership and has been kept off key committees. On Wednesday, he said of a $300 billion bill that raises farm subsidies and is filled with non-farm pork, "Sometimes, here in Washington, we tend to drink our own bath water and believe our own press releases."

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