MICKEY KAUS: “Maybe there should be a law that prohibits naming anything after a sitting (or living) legislator? Or even a dead legislator. That might actually be more effective than banning earmarks. Some earmarks, after all, may reflect a legitimate disagreement between local representatives and the federal bureaucrats who would otherwise decide the allocation of funds. But it’s hard to trust a legislator’s calculation of the public interest if what he’s funding has, or will have, his name on it.”

This is just another form of corruption.