Paging Senator Proxmire
Forbes has
coverage of an annual report by a group called Citizens Against Government Waste that outlines some of the more distinctively foolish government programs upon which the government lavishes money. The late Senator William Proxmire did a more limited run of this sort of thing with his Golden Fleece Award, but apparently takes more detailed view of the complete budget.
This sort of thing would make an excellent checklist for a line-item veto, ainna?