Citizens Against Government Waste released their 2008 Pig Book today. The top three porkers, Senators Thad Cochran, Ted Stevens, and Richard Shelby, all share one thing in common. They’re all Republicans. It’s kind of hard for the party to proclaim itself as the party of fiscal restraint when prominent members are flagrantly wasting taxpayer dollars.

As usual the Pig Book is chock full of programs so ridiculous it is hard to imagine our elected officials would have the gall to fund them. Cricket research. A lobster institute that lists as one of its major accomplishments a lobster dog “bisque-it.” Nearly $2 million for the “Charles B. Rangel Center for Public Service” inserted by… you guessed it: Rep. Charles Rangel. A jazz center.

It would be funny if it weren’t true.

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