Then he tried to justify the cost by saying they are meant to last 50 years or longer with little maintenance. But from the users end, the new design does not work any better than the ones dotting the landscape of Appalachia. The business end is still a hole in the ground. And for the price of one Park Service outhouse, we could build a few hundred of the old-style that would get the job done just as well and also last 50 years. But, then all those National Park Service designers, architects and engineers wouldn't get to play at taxpayer expense.
Federal law prohibits the use of that money in an election campaign.
Just about everyone at the Clinton and Gore Campaign Committee and the DNC were involved. Yet, there were zero arrests. The president was looking at a Republican Congress trying to implement a contract on America that would impact on Medicare, on education, go after the assault weapons ban, and the president was committed to make sure that that would not happen and that he would be able to be reelected. So, according to Panetta, they were justified in violating election laws simply because they needed to win the election to advance their socialist cause in the United States. By extension, that would explain why so many Democrats in Congress are doing everything in their power to obstruct a meaningful investigation.