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To protest, Sanford showed up to the next session at the statehouse with two piglets--nicknamed Pork and Barrel--under his arms. "I told them to blame it on me," Sanford says. "I'll be the bad guy. I'll live with that. But once they rejected the vetoes I had to find a colorful way of representing what the voters already know--that there's too much pork."

That's classic...

You guys are so lucky to have such a wonderful governor.

[Vigilanteman]

Since he entered the statehouse in 2003, Sanford's approval ratings have risen from the mid-50s to 70 percent.

Imagine! All this by governing as a conservative and moving away from the mushy middle.

[visualops]

He's a rarity- a principled man.

[dsc]

"That's classic..."

Yeah, and look at the response:

"The governor needs to take his medication," Jim Harrison, a GOP representative from Columbia, told the Greenville News. "It's going to be very, very hard to work with him after this," another Republican, Bob Leach, added. "I don't know if anything else will be accomplished at all."

Why are there so many of these dirtballs in public life, almost to the exclusion of decent people?