GOP Talking Point: “The Stimulus Package includes ludicrous and wasteful porkbarrel spending such as 30 million dollars to help preserve the salt marsh harvest mouse in San Francisco Bay.”
Democratic Talking Point: “Actually, the stimulus package does not include any ludicrous and wasteful porkbarrel spending to help preserve the salt marsh harvest mouse in San Francisco Bay.”
Responses from progressive bloggers pointing out that protecting the wetland habitat of the salt marsh harvest mouse is neither ludicrous nor wasteful, but is in fact our goddamned moral obligation, are detailed below the fold.
as a Vole researcher, then I rally with you for helping politicians and the general public understand the research in science (environment, ecology, conservation, etc) is not a waste of time.
And they are so cute.
I didn’t just know what the sound clip would be. I also knew it would be a sound clip of I-know-what before I clicked on read more. How sad is that?