[TheRealThing]

Appropriately enough since we are talking about a river project, it is "kinda fishy" sounding. They're saying that Rand Paul dodged the question earlier today too. We'll have to see how it all shakes out I guess. CNN's Steve Almasy who wrote the piece didn't have a clue either, or he'd have shouted it to the heavens. The northern shoreline of the Ohio is the border, or was in 1792, so he was right (but only in technical terms) to say that the Ohio flows through Kentucky. The Ohio River forms the entire southern border of the state of Ohio, which stands to gain substantially from the deal too, as their southern river ports are vital to their economy and flood control picture as well. The Ohio also forms the entire length of Indiana's southern border as well as Illinois. So, the same holds true for those two states as well.

My guess is it's going to be hard to hang this barrel of pork entirely around McConnell's neck. It impacts too many people. And, said contracts and design work for the project are very likely way up in the millions as was suggested by the article.