Mr O'Harrow, CEO and self appointed junk yard dog at Govt Inc did you read the powerful story about Mr. Contrell skimming millions at the Space and Missle Defense Command by Eric Lipton in the Sunday NYT? Where were you on this block buster....having a snooze? This is huge! Well researched, no anonymous sourcing, full of detail....fascinating. This is Pulitizer stuff. Don't you agree? Mr Lipton didn't just steal your virtual cookie, he ate your entire lunch and dinner. OUCH!

It appears that Alaska survives on ear marks and the oil companies. This is why Palin can boast of her tax cuts. How is this allowed to happen? How about doing away with foreign aid during this terrible time in our Country. We should put American citizens "FIRST" for once. Illegal Aliens should be deported and should not be able to receive all of the benefits designed for Americans. Our Hospitals are suffering, they use the ER as their DR. and the hospital is required to treat them. Also, how about we stop teaching Spanish to elementary school children and stop printing ballots in Spanish and the most deplorable of all is that our candidates give speeches in Spanish. I am a Senior Citizen and I was taught in school that to become an American Citizen you had to be able to speak and write English. I am ashamed of our Senators who voted againg English as out only Language, shame on you. Are you so desperate to get the votes that you are willing to violate our American rights.

OHarrow how about providing the names of the" three legislators "instead of giving them anonymity? Giving their names would actually inform the public, instead of playing games with words.

Mr O'Harrow,
It must be difficult to write something and then find people who are so willing to attack you for wanting to share something revealing about what happens every day in Washington. Is there any way to control or at least stem this out of control earmark spending? People may brag and say we don't even know the half of it, but I don't see anyone mentioning how we might stop the economic hemorrhaging that is bleeding our resources and creating an overwhelming deficit. Is there anything we can do to limit this before it's too late? How much longer will we spend money we never had? Government spending reminds me of an out of control credit card junkie who just can't stop spending until somebody cuts up his credit card. It's become so easy to spend other people's money that we've stopped recognizing that what we're scoffing about comes from ourselves.

We should just get rid of earmarks!
I am still waiting for someone to tell us, the taxpayers who finance these earmarks, exactly who had the nerve to attach earmarks to the recently passed Financial Bailout Bill.

I agree with Barb, why can't we find out who voted for the earmarks in that bailout? Why shouldn't he/she be voted out of office for that caper?
Someone obviously saw this bailout as an opportunity to stick the taxpayer with an additional 100 billion over the 700 billion Paulsen wanted for his cronies on Wall Street.
The public has a right to know who this insensitive clown is.