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August 30, 2006 • 7:53 am PDT
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Last week, we told you about the secret hold an anonymous Senator had put on a new bill that would create a searchable database of all federal funding. Now, a united "blogosphere" (one of the more detestable words in the new internet lexicon) has mobilized their gaggle of citizen journalists to locate the culprit. Turns out, it's Ted Stevens (R-AK), the king of pork himself. The man behind "a series of tubes" and "the bridge to nowhere." No one is surprised. Who knows what else you could find if you were able to search a database of all the idiocy he has created?

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