Napolitano, Schatz touted McCain as one of "very few members" of Congress who oppose government pork

Fox News' Andrew P. Napolitano uncritically touted Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) as one of few members of Congress who are able to reject pork-barrel government projects. Napolitano made these remarks during a conversation with Tom Schatz, the president of Citizens against Government Waste, who also said that McCain is one of the "very few" lawmakers "who don't take these kinds of projects." In fact, McCain recently introduced a bill to spend $10 million in federal money to establish an Arizona law center in tribute to late Supreme Court Justice William H. Rehnquist, which critics have argued is a "classic" pork-barrel project that "funnel[s] money directly to a home-state institution for a project that should find financing elsewhere." Read more