Hawkeye Republican

RE: THE END IS NEAR: I agree with you, Laura, that the growth of pork-barrel spending is disgusting (though I wouldn't call it the end of the world). The strangle hold of pork-barrel spending is why we need congressional term limits, so we can end the biannual tradition of 468 people buying their reelections, and why we need an appropriations line-item veto, so the president can cut at least some of the fat.