Dance of sugar plum politicians
Ho, ho, ho. No, no, that’s not Santa Claus. Those are chuckles at the spectacle of sugar plum politicians as they dance around potent issues.
The Washington Post featured the new dance of our own Senator Roger Wicker last week. He had put 223 earmarks worth $415.5 million into the Senate’s omnibus spending bill, then twirled around and helped kill the bill at the last minute. He was for it, but now he’s against it, wanting to “change the way business is done in Washington.”
Ironically, this resulted in a story in the Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal about the bill’s demise right after a story ran in the Starkville Dispatch quoting Mississippi State University President Mark Keenum saying “we’re hoping this will pass.” A number of the earmarks Wicker, along with Sen. Thad Cochran, had sponsored would have gone to Mississippi State.
Bill Crawford
Hattiesburg American
12/22/10
