Greyhawk at The Mudville Gazette has taken the important step of putting the appalling amount of pork-barrel spending found in this year’s Defense appropriations bill into the context of the Walter Reed neglect scandal. To be sure, the failures at Walter Reed were not a simple matter of underfunding, as Eli Lehrer explains today. But Greyhawk’s post does shed some light on why no one in Congress made the DC medical center a priority: It’s not in anyone’s district.