When Pork becomes Poop

With rebuilding New Orleans after the Katrina disaster going to cost in the billions, budget-conscious senators attempted to recind the Alaskan "Bridge to Nowhere". Senator Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, screamed that if the Senate took the money for that project, he would leave. His claim was that the Senate was being biased and unfair to the state of Alaska. Unfortunatly, in the end, the money wasn't recinded, the Stevens still sits in the Senate.
This is an unfortunate thing. Alaska, despite having one of the lowest populations of the US, gets one of the best dollar-per-person ratios of all the states. This is because Stevens holds a position of not only chairing the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, but also is in the Appropriations Committee. In other words, he can get alot of pork very easily.
But is a bridge that would serve only a very small population even need to be fought for? Let's see, we have MILLIONS that are displaced from Katrina, National Defense that could easily have a bigger budget, and a WAR that we are still fighting. Appearently a bridge is too much of a sacrifice.
Oh, wait. IT ISN'T. I think Stevens actually gave himself worse press by doing this, even to those who are recieving the bridge.