Ted Stevens included $209,900,000 for projects in Alaska in last year’s defense spending bill. I think it’s time we exposed all of this pork. Today we will focus on a short railway extension between two towns 82 miles apart that already have a highway directly connecting them.

The Northern Line Extension is no different than Stevens’ infamous “Bridge to Nowhere”, the project that would have had the federal government spending hundreds of millions of dollars for a bridge to an island that was largely unpopulated. The name of that bridge: Ted Stevens Bridge. I think it’s great that he wants his legacy to be useless pork projects.

Ted Stevens gets upset when anyone in Congress tries to block his many earmarks. He’s been known to verbally attack people on the floor of the Senate, just because they don’t think we should be spending 10 times more federal dollars per Alaskan than we do on the average American from other states.

An old Eskimo tradition had them putting their old and enfeebled out in the cold, allowing them to die. This was done for the benefit of the rest of the tribe, who could not spare resources to care for an individual who could not provide for himself. I think it’s high time we put Ted Stevens out in the cold, for the benefit of ourselves.

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