MoJournal | The Diddly Awards... Flight Risk...

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Mother Jones <do_not_reply () motherjones com>
Date: July 12, 2004 4:26:36 PM EDT
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Subject: MoJournal | The Diddly Awards... Flight Risk...
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Volume 2, Issue 28
July 12, 2004

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   Last year, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) proposed an
   amendment that would criminalize war profiteering. The
   Republican leadership not only removed it, but raised
   the limit on no-bid contracts from $7.5 million to $200
   million. At home, pork spending has enjoyed a stunning
   renaissance, from the creation of a $225 million African
   rainforest in Iowa, to a subsidy, procured by Rep. Billy
   Tauzin (R-La.), to help build a Hooters restaurant. Tom
   Delay, meanwhile, browbeat a D.C. restaurant manager to
   let him smoke a cigar at his table. Told that federal
   this would be against the law of the federal government,
   DeLay thundered back, "I am the federal government!"
   The 108th Congress, writes Jack Hitt, has been one of
   the most profligate - and least principled - in nearly a
   century. No shortage of candidates, then, for this year's
   Diddly Awards, Mother Jones' tribute to the most
   pork-happy, prejudiced, and pigheaded members of Congress.
   Writes Hitt, "[E]ven as they have scoffed at the rules the
   rest of us plebs must live by and spent like drunken
   sailors," members of the 108th Congress "still found myriad
   opportunities to, once again, do diddly."
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   Julian Brookes
   Assistant Editor, MotherJones.com

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