"In the coming months, but not quite yet, I promise to keep a really careful eye out for things that might get tucked away and snuck in just like I already let happen with the Highway Bill."
The sad thing, Amanda, is that most Congressmen would find even this not-so-ambitious pledge far too restrictive. Republicans are in a popularity death-spiral at the moment - the central feature of their plan for the 2006 election is to give out highway pork and introduce the People's Prescription Drug Benefit. It's a great way to motivate the conservative base...to jump off a cliff, perhaps.
On the Hill, they evidently worry less about overspending on such projects, and more about whether that bridge to nowhere in Alaska actually gets named after Don Young.
