UPDATE: No Hillary Pork For Hippies! Pork For The Hippies, Rangel, And Other Elected Officials….
Per Allahpundit, 
won’t be getting that pork!
AH, there is a god! 
Bryan notes that Rangel “is attempting to build a “presidential library, without the president” at City College of New York. Rangel’s monument to himself consists of three separate and expensive items, the Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service, the Rangel Conference Center, and the Charles Rangel Library.” Thankfully, Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) is proposing an amendment that would kill the federal funding.
Not to be outdone, the hippies, Clinton and Schumer, are looking to add a $1 million earmark to the Labor/Health and Human Services/Education appropriations bill, for a shrine to celebrate Woodstock-era baby boomers. This would be a “taxpayer-funded Woodstock flashback”. “What Cooperstown is to baseball,” says the museum’s Web site, quoting from a New York Times story, “Bethel could be to the baby boom.”
Bethel typifies the earmark epidemic because political insiders are often found pushing pork. The museum is funded principally by billionaire Alan Gerry’s foundation, which has annual investment income of $24 million. Federal Election Commission records show that Gerry has donated at least $229,000 to political campaigns, and his wife, Sandra, has contributed $90,000 over the past 10 years (including $26,000 in the last election cycle to the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, headed by Schumer). On June 30, the Gerrys gave the maximum $9,200 to Clinton’s presidential campaign, three days after the two New York senators put the Bethel earmark into the Labor-HHS bill.
The same appropriations bill is packed with other funding earmarks that Coburn said could have helped children instead. Democratic Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa earmarked $900,000 for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Foundation. Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont put in $100,000 for the Lake Champlain Quadricentennial. The two Virginia senators, Republican John Warner and Democrat Jim Webb, inserted $150,000 for the Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science Center.
Coburn is after bigger game. He is trying to eliminate $3.7 million in grants to labor unions requested by Harkin and Republican Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania. Coburn also seeks to remove $1.7 million added to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention budget to fund a Hollywood liaison to advise doctor dramas and $5.1 million for “audio visual integration” in the CDC’s new communications and visitors center named for Harkin.
In the previous money bill before the Senate, funding Commerce, Justice and science, Coburn tried on Oct. 4 to redirect $2.5 million in earmarks — mainly for museums — to fund the prosecution of unsolved civil rights cases. That failed 61 to 31. On Sept. 12, Coburn lost, 63 to 32, in seeking to eliminate six out of 600 earmarks in the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development appropriations. These included a new baseball stadium in Billings, Mont. He was beaten 82 to 14 when he attempted to defer all earmarks until defective bridges are repaired.
Democratic party-line voting belies claims of a new climate on Capitol Hill. On the 61-to-31 Commerce vote, for instance, only two Democrats — Evan Bayh of Indiana and Russ Feingold of Wisconsin — voted against earmarks. But Coburn also was opposed by 17 Republicans (including Mel Martinez of Florida, the party’s general chairman, and the top GOP members of the Appropriations Committee).
After his customary overwhelming defeat on the Transportation-HUD bill, Coburn blamed the Minnesota bridge failure on Congress: “We failed to make good decisions. We failed to direct dollars where they were needed most because this body is obsessed with parochial pork-barrel politics.” Other senators hate it when the plain-spoken obstetrician from Muskogee, Okla., talks that way, but they figure hardly anybody — including the media — is listening.
October 19, 2007 - 10:33 PM on October 19th, 2007
More pork more pork more pork SQUAWK SQUAWK
October 20, 2007 - 08:59 AM on October 20th, 2007
Given 1600 years and the Senate has returned to its Roman ancestry. Bread and circuses anyone? Instead of chariot races we have Nascar, but they’re still trying to beat up the Christians at every turn. I don’t know who said it but J.D. Hayworth quotes a line on his radio show that “history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does rhyme.”
The barbarians are knocking at the gates of Rome and our general population is about as prepared to handle the possible violence as the Romans were. This time instead of Huns with swords, it’s radical Islamists with AKs and IEDs.
For those in Congress who think they are so high, mighty and untouchable, I would like for them to take a lesson from the French revolution. The aristocracy and the monarch’s thought they were untouchable too. If you think the Islamofascists won’t blow up your motorcade, think again.