Rep. Don Young (R-AK) takes the cake. Actually, he'd be more likely to insert into the Department of Health and Human Services appropriations bill a provision mandating that $20 million worth of cake is sent to citizens. In Sweden.
And, he'd be proud of it.
"I was always proud of my earmarks. I believe in earmarks, always have, as long as they are exposed. But don't you ever call that a scandal," he said.
A $320 million bridge to Nowhere, Alaska? A $10 million earmark for a bridge in Florida? And we're not supposed to question any of it?
Maybe Rep. Young should take a bridge to 2007, where his buddies Jack Abramoff and Mark Zachares are serving jail time on corruption charges. Maybe then he'll understand that by saying he's "proud" to funnel millions to useless and unwanted projects at his donors' behest, he's only inviting trouble for himself and his party.
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