Bob Novak: "Chalk one up for the taxpayers"
I saw this article in my morning paper but didn't find a link to it until now. It seems a particularily bad piece of pork has been killed. The deal was for the Air Force to lease 100 Boeing 767s for $20 billion for 10 years. Taxpayers would pay to convert the planes to tankers, then to convert them back before returning them to Boeing when the lease ended. The deal was absurd - you could buy the planes outright for less than $200 million each. Good riddance to bad pork.