Pork in the Animal House = Rep. Don Young "porker of the year" = OINK, OINK,

[L. Coyote]

Pork in the Animal House
http://video1.washingtontimes.com/dinan/2008/01/pork_in_the_animal_house.html


In one of the classic scenes in the movie Animal House, the Delta boys are on trial for their fraternity hijinks. One of them, Otter, takes the floor and in his defense manages to spin the charges against the fraternity into an indictment of American society in general. In the climax he announces, "Well, you can do what you want to us, but we're not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America." (NOTE: The clip is an unedited clip, so be prepared for the same language and themes that earned the movie an R rating.)

Rep. Don Young has just tried the same thing in defending his pork-barrel spending to Citizens Against Government Waste, a spending watchdog group that annually declares a "porker of the year" -- the lawmaker with the most extreme pork-barrel spending habits.

Earlier this month CAGW nominated Young along with five other members of Congress as finalists for the porker of the year award -- Young already won the porker of the month designation last April.

But Young fired back, in a stern letter accusing CAGW's president, Tom Schatz, of not caring about the lives of American troops. His argument is one of his earmarked projects went to technology that allows troops to monitor enemies behind walls. .......