Curmudgeonly & Skeptical

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    It's "scientific McCarthyism," an attempt to impose a "right-wing ideological agenda," says Rep. Henry A. Waxman, California Democrat.   What and why?  Wacksy is in a snit over a list of  NIH pork compiled by the Traditional Values Coalition. 

"The list represents "almost $100 million of NIH grants that we wanted looked into," [T.V.C. executive director] Andrea Lafferty  says, "such as studying the sex habits of illegal immigrants ... [and] prostitutes that hang out at truck stops." She calls NIH "a bureaucracy run amok."

Wackso had charged that the list could only have been an inside job by right-wingers.  Mrs. Lafferty responded that she had compiled the list by her lonesome  "Maybe Henry Waxman ought to learn how to use the Internet, since Al Gore invented it." Ouch.

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House Speaker Dennis Hastert supports an effort to punish Democrats who voted en masse against an appropriations bill, the Hill newspaper reports [senate Republican dickwads, take note]. 

"Rep. Ralph Regula, Ohio Republican and a member of the Appropriations Committee, plans to eliminate projects "earmarked" for Democratic congressional districts in the Labor, Health and Human Services and Education spending bill, reporter Hans Nichols writes.
    Mr. Regula seeks to redirect those funds to projects in the districts of vulnerable Republicans.
    California Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the House Democratic leader, condemned the potential action as "criminal," while New Jersey Rep. Robert Menendez, chairman of the Democratic Caucus, called it "a clear declaration of war."  [Both items from Inside Politics]

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