As I long expected, the Republicans who wailed and bemoaned the pork of Washington during the campaign are still bringing home the bacon. Case in point: Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) who stuffed a $500 million provision into the 2011 budget. It was for NASA spending on the Ares I rocket program. Now, I am a fan of NASA and at first blush this sounds fine, except that NASA doesn't want or need it. They had scrapped the program, but Shelby's pork deal continues to fund two contractors, Lockheed Martin and Alliant Techsystems (ATK) both in the Senators home state of Alabama.
When it's election time, the GOP will squeal about pork, but once the votes have been counted they wallow back to the trough.
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