I’ve kinda been waiting for the right moment to comment on Rep. Jim Moran’s decorous remarks concerning earmarks, and I might have found just the right meme:
Moran, who’s famously promised, “When I become chairman [of a House appropriations subcommittee], I’m going to earmark the s*** out of it,” at a Jefferson-Jackson dinner in Arlington on June 9th, also has an interesting personal financial history, as Armed Liberal noted back in 2002, and helpfully reminds us with a compendium of Moran links at Winds of Change.
I get to see a new bit of Moran’s handiwork every day as I walk to my Metro stop–Metro, of course, is the Washington area mass transit system, which includes buses and a subway system–thanks to a $1,672,000 earmark he secured…
…with picture goodness.
I used to work at DEA (just behind the old MCI buildings in the pics towards the Pentagon) and remembered the Pentagon City Metro stop to be pretty decent.
Guess it didn’t meet everyone’s tastes. Thanks to the Sunlight Foundation for just the right comment.