Maureen Dowd steals my material. But that's cool!

Here is a snippet of Maureen's column today. I figure with her deadline, we were probably writing this at close to the same time.

"Ron Fournier of The Associated Press reported that the Army Corps of Engineers asked for $105 million for hurricane and flood programs in New Orleans last year. The White House carved it to about $40 million. But President Bush and Congress agreed to a $286.4 billion pork-filled highway bill with 6,000 pet projects, including a $231 million bridge for a small, uninhabited Alaskan island."