Do You Smell Something?
3rd December 2008
Dana Milbank is a leftoid twit, so when he criticizes a government program it must really be bad.
What was conceived in the 1990s as a sensible $71 million celebration of democracy turned into a half-billion-dollar shrine to legislative excess: an extra $4.2 million for congressional seals, an orientation film and backpack storage space, $30 million more for extra tunnels, elevators and the like, and $85 million for a TV studio for senators (makeup facility included) and a two-story hearing room for House members. By the end, even the lawmaker whose committee monitored the visitor center said she’d “never seen a bigger boondoggle in my life.”
But, you will note, it still happened. A government project is the closest thing to eternal life we will see in this world.