Facing Republican calls to cut spending, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., took to the floor of the Senate recently to defend pork-barrel spending in his state.
"The [taxpayer-funded] National Endowment [for] the Humanities is the reason we have in northern Nevada every January a cowboy poetry festival," he said.
Well, Nevadans are free to enjoy cowboy poetry, but why should taxpayers in Tennessee, Vermont and Idaho be underwriting it? And if even frivolous spending can't be touched, how will Congress ever reform massive spending on things such as Social Security and Medicare?