The Club for Growth has published a table of pork projects in federal spending bills year-by-year. In 1995 the total was 1,439, in 2005 over thirteen thousand. Andrew Roth notes, “by voting down the “Bridges” amendment, the Senate let the country know that it was unwilling to defund 2 out of 13,997 pork projects today. That’s 0.0142887762 percent.”

Draw your own conclusions.