Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma is questioning some of the 20,000 Recovery Act projects already approved to help stimulate the American economy. Sen. Coburn questions 100 stimulus projects

Coburn has criticized $3.4 million being spent to build an underground road crossing for turtles and other wildlife in Florida.

What can I say? This is at least as worthwhile a way to spend tax dollars as a study of how Chinese prostitutes can be a positive force in cutting down on over-consumption of alcohol and AIDS.

After all, the money could be spent on installing skylights in the state-run Montana liquor warehouse. Oh, wait. It is being spent on that. I know diddley about alcohol, except that it doesn’t freeze. I’m unclear on why skylights costing $2.2 million, which would bathe stored alcohol in warm and soothing sun & moon beams on cold Montana winter days and nights, are a good use of our tax dollars.

I guess we just gave Montana $27.7 million for energy programs and let them decide how to spend it. But that’s as it should be. It’s being left up to the states to decide if they want to spend $300 each for road signs to let motorists know that their driving convenience was paid for by stimulus money.

I think things are going splendidly stimulus-wise. We’re getting safer turtles, warmer booze and roadside ads for the federal government.