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Really?

What did the Coburn amendment consist of?

Was it pro or anti-illegal?

84 posted on 04/05/2006 5:43:48 PM PDT by Do not dub me shapka broham ("The moment that someone wants to forbid caricatures, that is the moment we publish them.")

The Coburn amendment of which I speak was a highly symbolic bill that would have defunded the 'bridge to nowhere' in Alaska. The vote was 85-15. If a Senator wasn't in those 15, his claim to being against pork is complete and utter bull$#!#. Not that being in the 15 means you're always against pork (Mike DeWine is a good example of a pork-loving member of that fifteen whose vote was clearly for political reasons)--but NOT being in the 15 means you're not even against pork when it's all that is being specifically voted upon.

Not surprisingly, John McCain is NOT in the 15.

86 posted on 04/05/2006 5:56:47 PM PDT by LibertarianInExile (Freedom isn't free--no, there's a hefty f'in fee--and if you don't throw in your buck-o-5, who will?)