The Pork Flowed Like Champagne

Katherine Mangu-Ward | March 20, 2008

Legislators stampeded the new House appropriations website yesterday with their requests for earmarks, causing it to crash. Roll Call was there. While I'd favor a first-come, first served, it's-not-my-fault- you-missed- the-deadline,- pal approach, the House Appropriations Committee has decided to extend the deadline for submissions until next week:

In a sure sign that earmarks remain as popular as ever, an overload of pork requests clogged the House Appropriations Committee’s Web site Wednesday, forcing an extension to the request deadline to next week.

The committee extended its deadline for earmark requests until 11:59 p.m. on March 24 after a “massive influx of requests” caused “unavoidable access and processing delays,” wrote Rob Nabors, staff director for the committee, in a memo to Member offices.

More pork, more pork, more pork. And some kangaroo.

Via The Weekly Standard

Comments

TallDave|3.20.08 @ 3:19PM|#

I just hope they approve my $1B project to research the effects of rolling around in money.

Dello|3.20.08 @ 3:20PM|#

What the hell were they thinking?! The internet isn't just some pig trough, its a series of sausage links.

Dello|3.20.08 @ 3:25PM|#

I think its funny that some conservitives actually think that Obama is a Muslim: He's obviously no stranger to pork...

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/21/politics/purehorserace/main2962372.shtml

|3.20.08 @ 3:32PM|#

that would be a fun website to hack.....

Jorgen|3.20.08 @ 3:38PM|#

It makes me sad that pigs are sullied with legislative blackmailing. They are loving, intelligent animals who have never asked anything more of the federal government than to not be run through meat grinders.

Angry Mike Laursens of the Wor|3.20.08 @ 3:45PM|#

I just hope they approve my $1B project to research the effects of rolling around in money.

Well, since everybody here knows the only real money is gold, it could be kinda painful.

jj|3.20.08 @ 3:47PM|#

This would be funny if it wasn't so sad.

|3.20.08 @ 3:57PM|#

Once again the U.S. Government is oblivious to the moral hazard that it creates, this time in eroding respect for deadlines.

|3.20.08 @ 4:02PM|#

I heard that when the Democrat party took over congress, all this slopping at the trough would wane to the point of disappearing.

I was misinformed.

a Duoist|3.20.08 @ 4:07PM|#

Earmarks are the sign of political cowardice and public complacency.

TallDave|3.20.08 @ 4:15PM|#

Well, since everybody here knows the only real money is gold, it could be kinda painful.

No problem, I have a $2B follow-up project to determine ways to make gold soft enough to roll around in comfortably.

|3.20.08 @ 4:27PM|#

Gold leaf would work. Plus you could look like Midas's daughter.

|3.20.08 @ 4:34PM|#

Here you go, TallDave. With the housing bubble bursting, you can pick it up for a song.

[IMG]http://www.lambdapsiphi.com/daft/daft/images/dtopen5.jpg[/IMG]

|3.20.08 @ 4:36PM|#

Holy crap. Talk about your mailcious website.

|3.20.08 @ 4:36PM|#

OK, I am no good at that. But here is the link to the money bin:

http://www.lambdapsiphi.com/daft/daft/images/dtopen5.jpg

|3.20.08 @ 5:02PM|#

Ooooh, I can't wait to visit the Earwax and Navel Lint museum to be opened in Cong. Murtha's district.

alan|3.20.08 @ 5:20PM|#

MMMM, pork. I had this awesome visual when I read Ms.Mangu-Ward lede (funny word, but not nearly as bad as 'krewe' which reminds me of a terribly written novel by Bruce Sterling) of chunks of pulled pork marinating in champagne. May try that on the grill this weekend if it stays reasonably warm.

|3.20.08 @ 6:00PM|#

Are there any links to who put in what so I can write my congressmen nasty letters before they are even letting the ink dry?

|3.20.08 @ 6:27PM|#

Legislators stampeded the new House appropriations website yesterday with their requests for earmarks, causing it to crash.

I'd like to lend your Congress the IT people from our office. I guarantee the website would be back up in time for the Chelsea Clinton Administration.

|3.20.08 @ 7:26PM|#

That must be right after Jeb Bush becomes the oldest elected President.

|3.22.08 @ 7:49PM|#

At least it only flowed like champagne and was not hot and cold running pork coming out of a Kohler faucet.