Real Change you can believe in – Pork
There’s campaign rhetoric, and there’s reality. The campaign rhetoric was “change you can believe in”. The reality looks something like this:
Simply, 3 of the 7 states that have clear Republican majorities on the national level are in the Top 10 biggest pork losers. Nancy Pelosi controls the House, who sets the budgets ( appropriations ). Petty partisan politics at work? Pelosi said those days were over. You decide.
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