Senate Blocks Moratorium on Earmarks

AP via SFGate ^ | 3/13/8 | ANDREW TAYLOR, Associated Press Writer

[Raymann]

Challenging Madison’s proposition for improvements to roads used in a system of national mail delivery. Jefferson wrote:

"Have you considered all the consequences of your proposition respecting post roads? I view it as a source of boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress & their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money. You will begin by only appropriating the surplus of the post office revenues; but the other revenues will soon be called into their aid, and it will be a scene of eternal scramble among the members, who can get the most money wasted in their State; and they will always get most who are meanest."

[Piquaboy]

I do hope that you did not just discover that.

[Young Scholar]

Unsurprising. I should have noticed that right away—it’s not as though the government ever actually cuts spending for anything.

[pankot]

A horse was named Senator. Eventually most were murdered by
nutty Emperor. So much for SPQR.