Pork for Me, Scraps for You, Is Tragedy: Caroline Baum

House Minority Leader John Boehner rails against government spending yet votes for a $485 million appropriation for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternative engine, which the Pentagon wants to kill. Boehner’s district is near the General Electric plant that’s building the engine.

Congressman Earl Pomeroy, Democrat of North Dakota, is a member of the fiscally conservative Blue Dog Coalition. He got an “F” on his 2009 report card from the National Taxpayers’ Union, which ranks members on the restraint they exercise in the areas of taxing and spending.