Landrieu's Ridiculous Demands

Can you believe this? They oughta call this woman the Pork Queen.

"A not so quick read of the 440 pages demonstrates that the Louisiana lawmakers stuffed it with everything they could think of," Miss de Rugy says. "Many items have nothing to do with hurricane relief."

A few samples: $35 million for the Louisiana Seafood Promotion and Marketing Board; $8 million for direct financial assistance to alligator farmers; $12 million for the restoration of wildlife management areas; $25 million to complete the Sugarcane Research Laboratory; $120 million for a laboratory, facilities and equipment at the Southern Regional Research Center; $28 million for the restoration and rehabilitation of trees; $34 million to support the research and education activities of the Agriculture Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; $19 million for the acquisition of first-responder mobile communications and to provide public wireless Internet access in a 100-block area of downtown New Orleans;

Oh, it gets even better. Read the whole thing.