Monte Asbury | My Amplog

And who is he? Senator Richard Shelby. He wants his home state of Alabama to get a $40 billion contract to build air-to-air refueling tankers and an improvised explosive device testing lab for the FBI. And he’s not going to let any of Obama’s nominees for administration jobs get through the Senate until he gets them. So basically 2,000 jobs that require Senate confirmation are going to remain unstaffed until Shelby gets $40 billion for Alabama which, at the going pork-to-campaign-donation exchange rate, probably translates into a few hundred thousand for Shelby personally. In the meantime we’re going without judges and department headsRead more at www.good.is