The House Dems’ lonely cry: We’ll end the war by funding the war and, meanwhile, here’s some pork.
"To get her narrow majority of 218 votes, Ms. Pelosi and Appropriations Chairman David Obey had to load it up like a farm bill: $74 million for peanut storage, $25 million for spinach growers, $283 million for dairy farmers–all told, some $20 billion in vote-buying earmarks of the kind Democrats campaigned against last year."
It won’t pass the Senate, of course, and if it does Bush has promised a veto. Just don’t call them unpatriotic.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
Can emphaize with the farmers since Eva and her family where dairy farmers and never seemed to get a break. either weather, shortage of feed, too much milk or shipping hurt the amount they received.
Can emphaize with the farmers since Eva and her family where dairy farmers and never seemed to get a break. either weather, shortage of feed, too much milk or shipping hurt the amount they received.
If the little guys get any of this money it will be a miracle. This is for the big corporate farmers who pay the big donations.