Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Pity poor Harold Rogers
He toils 28 years in Congress on the Appropriations committee shipping pork to his district. When it finally comes his turn to be the Chairman of the committee, a position that would allow him to make every voter in his district a millionaire, his party is crying poor and slashing every expenditure in sight. Or as Harold puts it,
“I ran to be head chef, but I wound up taking charge of the latrines,” said Mr. Rogers, 73, whose panel’s members now sometimes refer to it as the Disappropriations Committee.Timing is everything.
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