Thursday, February 7, 2008
Details and updates at Malkin's: The Berkeley backlash: It's not over.
Move America Forward is planning a counter-protest for the 12th.
Sen. Jim DeMint has a good piece at Human Events:
Over $2 million was secretly tucked away for Berkeley earmarks in the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill, projects that were never voted on or debated.
I do not believe a city that has turned its back on our country's finest deserves $2 million worth of pork-barrel projects. So, I will introduce legislation to revoke the funding.
Included in the $2 million worth of pork are some particularly wasteful projects.
One earmark provides gourmet organic lunches to schools in the Berkeley School District. While our Marines are making due with MREs of Sloppy Joe and Chili with Beans, the organization Chez Panisse is getting federal tax dollars to design meals that promote "environmental harmony." Chez Panisse's menu features "Comté cheese soufflé with mâche salad," "Meyer lemon éclairs with huckleberry coulis" and "Chicory salad with creamy anchovy vinaigrette and olive toast."
Are we to understand that the city that has been home to many of the country's most rich and famous cannot afford to pay for its own designer school lunches?...
Update: Democracy Project reaches back into the archives and asks:
...For those old enough to remember: Where were you in 1967? For those now: Where will you be February 12, 2008?
We should start a petition to build a fence around berkley. Let them fend for them self. No Federal AID for berkley.