George Will, writing in the Washington Post, notes that while Mary Landrieu’s speech on the Senate floor moved some of her colleagues to tears,

You can no more embarrass a senator than you can a sofa, so the tears were not accompanied by blushing about having just passed a transportation bill whose 6,371 pork projects cost $24 billion, about 10 times more than the price of the levee New Orleans needed. Louisiana’s congressional delegation larded the bill with $540,580,200 worth of earmarks, one-fifth the price of a capable levee.

I rarely agree with that dreadfully-bowtied prig, but this observation of his is on the money. I’m even a bit envious of that ’sofa’ line. George Will actually being witty — I think I’ll go play the Twilight Zone theme music now.

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