Trent Lott is getting a little testy.

Mark Tapscott reports that someone has apparently gotten under the skin of Trent Lott (R-Mississippi) with Glenn Reynolds and N.Z. Bear‘s Porkbusters campaign. The key quote that everyone is pulling out of this is

“I’ll just say this about the
so-called porkbusters. I’m getting damn tired of hearing from them.
They have been nothing but trouble ever since Katrina. We in
Mississippi have not asked for more than we deserve. We’ve been very
reasonable.”

I think that the most interesting part of this quote is not what
everyone else is looking at. Many are just looking at the first two
sentences. I’m more interested in Lott saying “have not asked for more
than we deserve.”

Really? And what exactly is it that you in Mississippi deserve? I’ve always had a problem with that word. Dictionary.com
defines it as ” To be worthy of; merit.” So what has Mississippi done
to merit a $700 million gift from the taxpayers of America to more a
railroad that CSX just spent $300 million on to repair after Katrina?
Wouldn’t that $700 million be better spent getting people back into
their homes or fixing infrastructure still left damaged? How does
Mississippi ‘deserve’ to have a railroad moved? If they want to move it
IN THEIR OWN STATE then let the state pay for it. If the state can’t
pay for it, but they still want it moved, then let the railroad company
pay for it. If the railroad doesn’t want to throw more money at it than
the $300 million spent already to fix it, the don’t do anything.

I’m sorry, but the state of Mississippi no more deserves to have $700
million to move a railroad out of my taxes than I deserve to have $5 to
buy a cheeseburger using their taxes. Let’s stop spending money like we
have it, and start realizing that our government is simply wasting away
financial resources that we might need in the future. The entire
financial and political system in Washington is corrupted and needs to
be cleaned out. No more entitlement programs, no more earmarks, no more
free government money for things. Let’s rework the system, and Porkbusters is a good way to start. CAGW is also a good resource for information on this too.

(h/t (again) Michelle Malkin)