House Republicans complained bitterly Wednesday that they had been shut out of the secretive process in which Democrats assembled a huge spending bill to sweep clear a budgetary mess they inherited...
...Then there was the Senate's refusal to kill $45 million in funding for an indoor rainforest project in central Iowa, even though local backers have yet to come up with their required share of funding.
So Chuck Grassley, the fauxscal conservative, gets his pork thanks to the Democrats in charge now.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
What is this $45 million? Grassley had originally secured $50 million a couple years ago, of which nearly $3 million was spent by head con artist David Oman before the project was kicked down the road from Coralville to backwater Pella.
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