I just read an excellent post (”Deep Thinkers“) at JustOneMinute about the power of the blogosphere, which was in response to Peter Daou’s The Triangle and the Limits of Blog Power. Basically, Daou analyzes the difference between the…

It’s Good To Be Alaskan King Crab
or at least to be the third ranking Republican member of the House of Representatives. I have never heard of him until now, but he must be good, real good. In the recent highway bill Donny Boy hornswoggled $941 mil…

Fed up with the current Federal budget? Me too. I think it’s a joke to imagine that the Democrats would do any better, though! So when I read something like this,

the GOP majority has been spending federal tax dollars like drunken sailors since …

Post provides a detailed of analysis showing that the budget to maintain the Alaska Federal highway was padded at almost twice the amount for maintaining similar state roads in Alaska.

Yes.. I’m still ranting about Rep. Young’s Bridge. I happened to catch an interesting email that someone sent to Michelle Malkin’s site. She published in her DON YOUNG: HOG WILD story. Excerpt’s that caught my attention:

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Even as my children have a bake sale at their school to raise a few dollars to aid victims of Hurricane Katrina, Transportation and Infrastructure Committee Chairman Don Young (R-Alaska) says to keep your dirty paws off of his pet…

Is it time for a revolution? Ace of Spades thinks so. And he’s not alone.
No, I’m not talking about the bloody overthrow of the bourgeoisie. Ace wonders whether the Republican party needs new blood to come in and put an end to the wreckless spend…

I saw the media interview this bozo a few days ago and heard him say in reference to the suggestions we cut the pork in the highway bill, “You don’t know what the hell you’re talking about… It’s just ignorance and stupidity”. I think it’s ignorant…

Post has a spreadsheet of 5,091 earmarks from the Highway Bill; making it easy to search for pork in your state.

According to Michelle Malkin that would be Rep. Don Young from Alaska.

Glenn Reynolds, N.Z. Bear and the rest of the pork-busting blogosphere are doing a fabulous job shedding light on all the dripping fat in Washington. I think Alaska GOP Rep. Don …