"I haven't seen so much lard," said Ronald Reagan, "since I handed out blue ribbons at the Iowa State Fair." It was March 1987, and the president was using his weekly radio address to blast a highway spending bill he'd just vetoed. The next month 13 Republican senators deserted him by voting to help Democrats override the veto. As the late Senator Robert Byrd, a Democrat legendary for bringing money home to West Virginia, told his chamber: "Potholes know no party."
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