Missed this a couple of days ago… faced with the prospect that the
U.S. Congress might just decide that New Orleans (and America) needs
Interstate 10 just a teensy bit more than this town —

— needs a bridge comparable to the Golden Gate, Alaska’s brilliant
Senator Ted Stevens (R-Pork), actually announced that if Ketchikan
doesn’t get the bridge a lot of people there don’t even want, he would stamp his feetsies and resign in a huff.

So, um, that would be a two-fer.

Original post on the subject, with more details and a diagram of the proposed bridge here.

And for a look at the relative porkiness of various senators on the Defense Appropriations Subcommittee, go here and scroll down.  Stevens wins!