Live from the Bridge to Nowhere...

After visiting 27 states and dozens of pork-barrel earmarks from Vermont to San Diego and Florida to Wyoming, the Ending Earmarks Express has now visted the granddaddy of all pork-barrel earmarks... the infamous Bridge to Nowhere in Ketchikan, Alaska. As you'll see in the accompanying video we shot on the ferry between Ketchikan and tiny Gravina Island in a remote section of southeastern Alaska, there's really no need to spend $223 million federal taxpayer dollars on a bridge longer than the Golden Gate and taller than the Brooklyn Bridge.

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[rockit1]

this is sad ....we need leaders in this country !!!!

[hiwaymanx]

All politicians are in on the scam to grab taxpayers money. Voting doesn't make a difference, since there is only one party, traitors.

[NoAbomination]

CNN article 09/23/08:Although Democratic vp candidate Joe Biden routinely mocks his Republican counterpart, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, for her onetime support of the infamous "Bridge to Nowhere," Biden and his running mate voted to keep the project alive twice. Both Biden and Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama voted to kill a Senate amendment that would have diverted federal funding for the bridge to repair a Louisiana span badly damaged by Hurricane Katrina, Senate records show.

[stevolisa2004]

i thought is was the bridge to russia inwhich i do support,with there help though?

[zonesmuggla]

Boondoggle - a term for a scheme that wastes time and money

[martatay]

the bridge doesn't connect ketchikan with the mainland, but with another island that has the airport on it.

[AFPFoundation]

Actually, McCain voted AGAINST the original bloated transportation bill that included the earmark. Then there was a vote on an amendment to kill that one earmark and send the money to Louisiana for Katrina relief -- Obama and Biden voted AGAINST that amendment. McCain wasn't present for the vote.

[drone36]

The earmark was attached to a bill containing many, many other items.

Idiots.

[david1122321]

McCain did vote for it actually.

[unett]

Stupid idea. Besides it looks so much prettier without that junky bridge.

[66barry]

Fact is Obama and Biden Voted FOR this Bridge. Mccain did'nt!