I use to get a kick out of Sen. William Proxmire's Golden Fleece awards for creative wasting of taxpayer money. It looks as if Sen. Tom Coburn is trying to fill that niche with his "Wastebook 2011" report highlighting over $6.5 billion in examples of "some of the most egregious ways your tax dollars were wasted."
Examples of wasteful spending highlighted in “Wastebook 2011” include:
