I've been saying it for a while now: we will have another Republican president in 2008. The Democrats are worse than useless.

http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007_01_01_digbysblog_archive.html#116863498980197288 Digby hits the modern American conservative nail squarely on its malfunctioning head.

The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2006 Pig Book identified 9,963 projects in the 11 appropriations bills that constitute the discretionary portion of the federal budget for fiscal 2006, costing taxpayers $29 billion. A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition.

On the abject failure of movement conservatism to amount to anything, by a real conservative.