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MarkusQ writes "A few days ago a bi-partisan bill (PDF) to create a searchable on-line database of government contracts, grants, insurance, loans, financial assistance, earmarks and other such pork was put on 'secret hold' using a procedure that does not appear to be mentioned in the Constitution or in the Senate bylaws. This raised the ire of bloggers left and right and started an all out bi-partisan effort to expose the culprit by process of elimination. As it turns out it was our old friend the right honorable Senator from Alaska, Mr. 'Series of Tubes', Ted 'Bridge to Nowhere' Stevens."
because government (whiny liberals in the northeast) won't let them drill their oil.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Ted Stevens may just be America's largest douchebag, but he wasn't alone on this one... Did anyone notice that West Virgnia Democrat Robert Byrd also had a hold on the bill? Byrd's reasoning went, "Senators should read and debate bills before they vote on them."
New topic: Alaskans have repeatedly voted to put Ted Stevens in the Senate. Can America survive if we cut Alaska loose? We know Alaska can survive; they've got plenty of oil.
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