Congress can’t consider major legislation with someone trying to tack pork onto it. The leading Senate bill to impose a government option for health care is no exception:

Eating pork is supposed to be good for your health. That must be the thinking behind the porky projects Sen. Mike Enzi of Wyoming found in pending healthcare legislation. …

The healthcare bill also includes a “Community Makeover Program” to spend up to $10 per person for beautifying streets in select locales. Coming soon to a Pennsylvania township near you — the John Murtha Yellow Brick Road. Maybe Uncle Sam could get Ty Pennington of “Extreme Makeover: Home Edition” to make a reality series based on the program.

Those are excerpts from my blog post for American Issues Project yesterday. Read it all.

While you’re there, read my post about nuclear energy from earlier in the week, “The Nuclear Option.”