Soowee! Soowee! Calling all porkers...

The TPM muckraker has been doing some good work lately unmasking the culprit who had placed the secret hold on the "bill that would create a free, searchable database of government contracts and grants". As Justin Rood had said earlier:

The government spends or gives away hundreds of billions of dollars each year. But there's no easy way to see where it goes.

Two senators have championed a searchable database of federal spending and grantmaking. But now that it's on the brink of becoming law, an anonymous senator has stepped in to block it.

I guess it should come as no surprise that the guilty party is none other than "The King of Pork", Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens (R-AK) who is infamous for his earmarking of $200+ million for the so-called "Bridge to Nowhere". The Muckraker had eliminated 95 other senators before Stevens' office, no doubt sensing the noose tightening, admitted his guilt. John Hart, a spokesman for the bill's co-sponsor, Sen. Sen. Coburn (R-OK), questioned Stevens' motive: "The only reason to oppose this bill is if he has something to hide".

Read all about it here.