Rep. Flake: The biggest bugger in earmarks.

And my hat's off to Rep. Jeff Flake in Arizona for being nothing but a pain in the ass to the Congressional leaders on pet projects spending.

From LA Times:

WASHINGTON -- When Rep. Jeff Flake rises to speak in the House of Representatives, his colleagues grimace.

Usually, the Arizona Republican is out to shame them over earmarking money for pet projects that have little to do with federal priorities.

Flake routinely derides congressional earmarks with his signature eye-rolling puns, adding insult to injury for the lawmakers who sponsor them.

* On $100,000 for the Hunting and Fishing Museum of Pennsylvania in Tionesta: "I have never had a hard time fishing for earmarks that seem to be fiscally irresponsible, but this one seemed to be a particularly easy catch."

On $6.3 million for a wind demonstration project: "This process of challenging earmarks on the floor is often described as tilting at windmills, so I suppose it is only proper that we start today with an earmark for the wind demonstration project."

* On $300,000 for the Bronx Council on the Arts: "I would ask members of this body: 'How would you define irony?' I define it as providing a federal earmark to the Bronx Council on the Arts, which is advertising an event called Pay to Play. . . . It is sadly ironic that we are funding artistic parodies of congressional earmarking with earmarks."

* On $100,000 for the Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center in Pennsylvania: "I feel like Bill Murray in 'Groundhog Day.' Every year, it's the same thing: Congress passes spending bills loaded with pork projects."

* On $500,000 for a swimming pool in Banning, Calif: "I know the desert can get awful hot, and there is nothing better than taking a swim. But I do not know why we ought to give the federal taxpayer a bath every time somebody wants a swimming pool."

* On $150,000 for the Actors Theatre of Louisville in Kentucky: "It would be nice if Congress started acting more fiscally responsible."

* On $500,000 for the Burpee Museum of Natural History in Rockford, Ill.: "This pork project is enough to give anyone indigestion."