Arkansas Blog

The Wall Street Journal takes note of how one certain Pennsylvania congressman has become his town's biggest employer thanks to earmarks and no-bid defense contracts.

When will Fort Baptist get a return on it's contribution to Rep. Don Young. Our old moneyed dumped cash on him like water on a house fire so we'd get Interstate 69 to run thru the Fort. We're not getting any younger over here.....so let's have that payback Rep. Young!

DBI - if you see I-69 rolling into Fort Baptist would you direct on down south Highway 71 towards Texarkana/LA.? Thanks.

Just get your checkbook out Cato. Cough it up, steal it from the churches, Boy Scouts, local community chest.

"When will Fort Baptist get a return on it's contribution to Rep. Don Young."

Just as soon as they pay off Wally-Tyson-Hunt with newer and bigger highways up nawth.

All of this makes me wonder just what use is Boozman? Rwingers were in charge of the purse strings
for 12 years and the local powers had to play the payola lottery to get some decent roadways. Maybe Boozman just acts as the agent.

I wonder if a Clinton #2 presidency will be similar to a Beebe government where the Rs fare better
under a Demo than with one of their own?

Rep. John Boozman today voted to temporarily ban the collection of taxes on Internet access, and urged the House to schedule a vote on a permanent ban.

"A tax-free Internet should be permanent," Boozman added. "As of today, we have more than half of the House of Representatives signed-on to a bill to ban Internet taxes permanently. We need to take the next step and pass it."

Look at this eLwood. And last week he voted FOR a slightly watered down version of Schip. It's not a cure for cancer, but these 2 votes probably don't please his Bushie handlers. Dare we hope for 3 good votes?

Yay! Government crookedness finally benefits me! About time!

Now if I can just figure out a way to make money off the war.

Now if I can just figure out a way to make money off the war.<<

Start now! Collect good Xmas stuff for the soldiers. Take up collections for more
bullet proof vests and torches to help fit-protect their Humvees. Then open a discount store with
the stuff. That's about what Rumsfield did. You may get a Medal of Freedom!

Lovely, lovely road it'll be, to nowhere anytime soon. Didn't I read that I-69 has been on the drawing board since five years before our good Congressman Ross was born? Fifty years or so? All they need now is the money, so say the talking heads.
But.
But.
We need to be ready with a $600,000,000 connector road to a non-existent interstate. Incidently, that's $600,000,000 now, up from $300,000,000 or so a few years ago. Do I hear a billion when all's said and done?
It all makes sense to me. How about you?

Doigotta....just think of the super highways we could build with money being thrown away on the Iraq war. With 200 billion invested IN America...whew....we all might be riding in one of those Jetson's car next year. We'll need lots of good roads to get OUT of America when China comes to collect the bills in a couple of years.