Hand Out Across the Aisle

The Boston Herald has this heartwarming story about how earmarks can bring old friends and different political parties together.  The apparently very philanthropic Democratic Congressman Bill Delahunt secured a $1.1 million earmark for his old friend, former  Republican Congressman  Amory Houghton, to protect Houghton’s expensive waterfront home from flooding.

This suddenly makes my own gifts of Starbucks cards or cds for a friend’s birthday seem rather pathetic,  but then I don’t have access to heaps and heaps of other people’s money.