Website of the Week

Today we crown a new feature here at Make me a Commentator. Yes its "everybody-send-Bryant-a-Dollar-day." Hooray! Oh wait a second--we had to put that off. It's actually a new feature that we call "Website of the Week." Each Friday I will post a Website on politics that I want to make fun . . . er, offer insightful commentary on.

Today I have selected a page from the Citizens Against Government Waste entitled Porker of the Month. At this website they investigate how the government wastes our money. They describe themselves as "a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse in government. Non-partisan, eh? Interesting.

So lets look at the record. They started in January 2001 by profiling Bill Clinton as their porker of the month. Since then they've profiled 31 one people (They have often profiled two porkers working together, and at one point three). Of those 31 people, 18 were Democrats, 10 were Republicans and 3 were other (including the U.S. Post Office). The breakdown looks something like this;



I don't know about you, but that doesn't look very bi-partisan to me. It also helps to note that several of the Republicans, including Arlen Spector, Lincoln Chafee (profiled twice), and Jim Jeffords (Profiled before he went independent) are not exactly the conservative's favorite Republicans. So maybe they are partisan after all.