Starting on September 22, I've been making the case that it the broken levees were a result of addiction to federal pork. Now we read that Senator Tom Coburn tried, and failed to break the addiction by shifting funds from a bridge in Alaska in order to rebuild a bridge destroyed by Katrina. The senate found this withdrawal of funds too painful. For an account of the story, see Outside the Beltway
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October 21, 2005
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