Bridges vs. Breasts

Let me get this straight.

Our Representative, Frank Wolf, inserted an earmark in a Congressional spending bill to fight online obscenity.

"The grant, about $150,000 a year, has helped pay for Mr. Rogers and another retired law enforcement officer in Reno, Nev., to harvest and review complaints about obscene matter on the Internet that citizens register on the Justice Department Web site."
-The New York Times

That's $150,000 of our Federal tax dollars, going to two retired police officers in Indiana and Nevada, thanks to Frank Wolf.

Meanwhile:

"Reflecting the county's growth in population and traffic, the number of functionally obsolete bridges is even greater and more than doubled from last year's count to 72. Last year, 35 of the county's 437 bridges were classified as functionally obsolete, said Nicholas Roper, VDOT's Northern Virginia's district bridge engineer. Updated last week, that number increased to 72, he said, or 16 percent of the county's overall bridges."
-Leesburg Today

Frank couldn't think of a better use for $150,000?

"Three of these bridges along Rt. 15 north of Leesburg that intersect the tributaries of the Potomac River were rehabbed in 1994 and are already considered functionally obsolete, according to VDOT's statistics."

Between Eugene Delgaudio not believing in cows, Jim Clem not showing up for votes, and Frank Wolf paying cops in other states to hunt online for "sexual material involving consenting adults" (and yet, they missed Mark Foley, go figure), I think we need to send the Republicans packing, and elect some Democrats who understand what it means to represent the interests of their constituents.