Gluttony and greed are two of the Seven Deadly Sins, and given the way many members of Congress are slurping at the trough and spending your money, it looks like Hades will have to make room for them.

The $500 billion omnibus spending bill making its way through the Senate this week (having passed the House last week) includes pork that would make Jimmy Dean envious:

Almost $2 million to study pig smells in the “Swine Odor and Manure Management Research” earmark.  (If Congress really wants to know how pigs smell, they can just sniff themselves.)

$475,000 to “improve and expand” the Italian American Museum in Little Italy in New York. (Pass the lasagna.)

$162,000 to control rodents in Hawaii. (And yet, no one controls the rodents roaming Capitol Hill.)

$1 million to control Mormon crickets in Utah.  (Who knew crickets had different religious denominations?  What’s next?  Another million to control Buddhist flies?)

$150,000 for Maine to conduct “lobster research,” courtesy of those Republican crap sandwich traitors, Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins.  (Here’s my lobster research:  taste-testing lobster rolls on toasted vs. untoasted buns.)

$100,000 for a second lobster earmark for boat rides with lobstermen.  (Lobster joyrides for everyone!)

Almost $1 million for Rahm Emanuel’s earmark for “street rehabilitation” in Franklin Park, Illinois. (Sounds like potholes to me.)

And almost $40 million for three Democratic presidential libraries: FDR’s, JFK’s, and LBJ’s.  (Here’s a thought:  why don’t we demand an earmark for money for the newly designed George W. Bush presidential library?)

There’s more ridiculousness in the bill, like funding for mosquito trapping and canoes, all of which are apparently critical to the functioning of America.

The Bama is chomping at the bit to sign this monstrosity, claiming it funds “necessary” operations of government.  But as he once said:  You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig.

This pig isn’t even bothering with the cosmetics.

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