NY Times columnist, "Heather" and dilletante extraordinaire Maureen Dowd (MoDo) has unsurprisingly decided to yet again exploit a situation that she knows and cares nothing about (which is pretty much everything that doesn't have to do with cocktail parties and stained blue dresses) in order to score what she views as cheap political points against those boring people who actually do something for a living and perhaps might even want to make the world better, in this case Obama and Democrats in trying to pass last year's spending bill that's being debated in congress this week.
Her departure point this time is all the alleged "pork" that's in the bill, which appears to trouble her. After all, noted economic expert John McCain said so, thus it must be true. This supposed pork has been widely discussed as being 40% Republican, so I won't get into the politics of this. But it's worth going over a few of the spending earmarks that she seems to have such a problem with.