Porkmistress Pelosi - The Subway to Nowhere

Madam Speaker says she wants to tame pork-barrel spenders. Takes one to know one. by Matt Smith -- There was the Bridge to Nowhere in Alaska, then the Railroad to Nowhere in Mississippi. Now comes the Subway to Nowhere in San Francisco, courtesy of Nancy Pelosi. If she's persistent with this crusade, we can expect one of two things: Either San Francisco will be deprived of more than half a billion dollars in federal money we thought we had coming, or Pelosi will squander an opportunity to become this country's first effective national female leader. The map charting these two possible paths is contained in a memorandum — reported for the first time here — that revealed the pork-barrel wastefulness of the Pelosi-sponsored Central Subway, a 1.7-mile light rail line currently budgeted at $1.2 billion that's supposed to connect the Giants' ballpark to Chinatown. Read More ...

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