The Bailout Bill and the Bridge to Nowhere

Well one thing the ressurection of the Bailout Bill should show is that when Sarah Palin says she killed the Bridge to Nowhere and Charles Gibson smugly responded "After Congress voted it down." that he was talking through his hat.

What Palin should have said back to Charlie was "You know Charlie in politics there are very few last innings, the fat lady very rarely sings.  Just because Congress removes an earmark one day doesn't mean that a day, a week, a month or a year later that the earmark would not be returned to the budget.  There was nothing stopping me from instructing our lobbyist to continue working on getting that bridge into the budget."

The Bailout Bill was voted down and yet here it is again.  So Congress voting something down means nothing.