Thursday, March 09, 2006

Earmarks gone crazy

In last season's series 24, the great FOX show, anyone who knows a stitch about geography guffawed when the bad guys hid their stolen nuke bomb somewhere in the mountains of Iowa.

Iowa is a flat prairie -- one of the largest compartments in the US breadbasket.

But Senator Grassley -- a REPUBLICAN -- earmarked money for a rainforest project in his home state. Then the problems started for one small town . . .

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