[IP] 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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