It was fill-in-the-blank-time for editorial boards across the country to describe the Farm Bill disaster. Michael G. Franc has this roundup of reactions in NRO Farming Out Principle:
“bloated monstrosity” (News-Sentinel of Fort Wayne, Ind.), “outrageous” (Charleston, W. Va., Daily Mail), “absurd” (St. Louis Post-Dispatch), “disgraceful” (New York Times), “shameful” (Wisconsin State Journal), “irresponsible” (Houston Chronicle), “maddeningly stupid, wasteful, and ridiculous” (the News Tribune of Tacoma, Wash.), “ “a bipartisan bumper crop of very rich manure” (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review),” “laughable” (Orlando Sentinel), “ludicrous” (Detroit News), “ridiculous” (the Lowell Sun), and (in perhaps the most diplomatic criticism of all) an “unlovely creation” (Washington Post).
An addition: “farcical” (Council for Citizens Against Government Waste)
Filed under: Farm Bill, In The News, Pork, Waste
