Republicans try to get "coyote ugly" on transportation bill

The Washington Post as linked above is comparing it to "buyers remorse", but I think it is more like waking up next to someone that with a few drinks looked pretty darn good then discovering? Not something you are especially going to brag about to your friends.

While in most cases better late than never could be said, I wonder what are they going to do about this "remorse" now? The few attempts so far have failed so all we have at this point is talk and no action....

From the article:

Conservative groups, government watchdogs and ordinary folks around the country are so offended by the size of the legislation -- signed into law by Bush in early August -- that efforts are underway in the House and the Senate to rescind or reallocate a portion of its funds.

Lawmakers say voters are stopping them back home to ask whether the "Bridge to Nowhere" is a joke or whether it actually exists. It is no joke. The project, championed by Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), would link tiny Ketchikan, with a population of 8,900, with its airport on Gravina Island -- population 50.

DeLay is even trying to backtrack:

He conceded that Congress may have gone a bit overboard.
"Our responsibility, that frankly we didn't perform very well, is to make sure those are legitimate earmarks for legitimate reasons," DeLay said, referring to the pet projects.

The Club for Growth, a conservative group that funds like-minded candidates for Congress, has turned the highway legislation into a bumper sticker for the GOP's fiscal failings. "Too many Congressional Republicans have veered away from the limited government agenda that got them elected to the majority in Congress. They have approved pork-barrel highway bills worse than the Democrats used to give us," says one appeal to supporters.

I'd also point out that I believe President Bush should have vetoed this bill...He should have never signed it.