Doolittle: No apologies from pork king
How’s this for timing?
Today the Sacramento Bee announced that an influential former county GOP chairman had public trashed Rep. Doolittle over his atrocious Club for Growth pork scores: “I think when this conservative district sees how John spends their money, I think John doesn’t have a chance,” Campbell said.
Moments before a friend calls up with that tip, we get this form mail email from Doolittle, whom we had pestered about his pork addiction. His response? “I support the process of earmarking.” He goes on to explain that earmarking is constitutionally sanctioned and, because it is constitutional, he is damn well obliged to engage in it.
Well, John, lots of things are constitutionally protected. Like adultery. As they say in German, “Na, und?”
Favorite paragraph:
[L]ocal officials make better decisions on what projects merit funding instead of bureaucrats who do not have a working knowledge of the real value of a project. If we abandon the practice of earmarking, important decisions about which projects should receive funding will be made by tens of thousands of bureaucrats who were not elected and have no direct accountability to taxpayers and voters.
So instead, John, we’ll have Congress choose projects based on how much campaign cash they can coax from developers or other vested interests, and how many votes they can get from from grateful constituents who get funding for dumb-ass projects no one in their right mind would pay for.
[Club for Growth reaction here.]
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