One of our local papers, The Lakeland Ledger, has a few quotes by my representative, Adam Putnam, regarding the no-stimulus stimulus bill.

The only thing some provisions of the latest bailout bill are likely to stimulate is a hefty tax burden on the nation’s grandchildren, said U.S. Rep. Adam Putnam, R-Bartow.

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Putnam said there is what he calls pork in the bill that shouldn’t be there. One such project, he said, is $200 million to resod the 700-acre National Mall.

“There is other pork, and there are projects that may be good but don’t belong in an economic stimulus package,” he said.

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“We are going to be reading about things for weeks that were buried in this bill,” he said.

Putnam is pinning his hopes on the Senate, where Republicans there could force alterations to the stimulus package and send it back to the House.

“I would certainly hope it would make some changes,” he said. “The Senate is a more deliberative body and will study it in greater detail. In the House, we’ll have about an hour of debate.”

Ed Morrisey points out the effort made by Rob “N.Z. Bear” Nepal with the site Read The Stimulus. Ed says,

Rob has transformed the 1,588 pages of legislation and committee reports into a searchable website designed to shine a light on the Congressional porkfest. What had once been an inaccessible and forbidding mountain as daunting as Everest now becomes accessible to those motivated to find the pork, waste, and outright fraud in them thar hills.

Pork, Waste, and Outright Fraud — plenty to be found there.