Ted wins on this issue just as he did in Iowa, taking a principled stand against the ethanol subsidy. The 9/11 health bill was just like the Hurricane Sandy relief legislation, larded with pork spending on things quite remote (substantively and geographically) to the title of the bill. That is an easy concept for voters to understand. You see bills all the time with the title “Motherhood, Blind Widows and Orphans Relief act of xxxx” which include massive amounts of spending on completely unrelated matters. The criticism shouldn’t be leveled at those who say stop - but at those who cynically bundle their pet pork under such titles.
Can’t be opposing things like Cowboy Poetry Museums, now can we?