From TPM-Muckraker.COM:

Experts Question Legality, Ethics Of Young’s Earmark

There are earmarks, and then there are earmarks.

Rep. Don Young (R-AK) has taken the political art form to an ethically questionable level that even some experts in the trenches have never seen. In 2005, Young waited until after the House and Senate passed a transportation bill, but before the president signed it into law, to rewrite a passage that would have granted $10 million for an interstate in Florida. His new wording targeted the money to a much smaller, more specific project to connect Coconut Road to that interstate. It’s an unpopular project in the area, but a boon for real estate developer Daniel Aronoff, who held a $40,000 fundraiser for Young in Florida just before the earmark appeared.

Young has refused multiple requests for comment from different publications on these, and related allegations. Once he made an obscene gesture at a New York Times reporter who approached him about the earmark. His spokeswoman did not get back to us today.

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If a member of Congress can re-write a law after it’s already been voted upon, and if George Bush can just simply ignore laws that Congress passes with signing statements,  why in the hell do we even bother having a Congress in the first place?

How much longer will the farce that we have a Constitution that’s the “Law of the Land” go on?  

Why not just declare Bush and his Cohorts King, or Dictator, or whatever, and be done with it?