Bring Home The Bacon

As the tea party movement echoes that excoriation, Inouye's unabashed advocacy for bring-home-the-bacon governance is jarring. ❋ Jason Horowitz (2010)

After political observers have spent months scouring races nationwide for evidence of Palin's right-wing reach vs. the staying power of bring-home-the-bacon Republicans like Murkowski, it turns out that the ideal testing ground may be the women's own Alaskan back yard. ❋ Unknown (2010)

As bring-home-the-bacon politicians they hoped to win expanded breaks for rural hospitals and small businesses in their districts. ❋ JONATHAN ALTER (2010)

My great-grandfather, grandfather, and father were awesome, law-abiding, bring-home-the-bacon men, but when it came to the spiritual and emotional areas of their lives, they were quiet. ❋ Ken Canfield (2005)

America's dominant culture had largely succeeded in inculcating monogamy and bring-home-the-bacon norms in blacks by about 1960, when it suddenly lost its self-confidence and began funding, via AFDC, the traditional African tendency toward mothers supporting their children without much support from their fathers. ❋ Steve Sailer (2005)

Barbara A. Mikulski, who honed her style as a bring-home-the-bacon senator with wise advice from Sen. Robert C. Byrd, mourned her long-time mentor's death early today at age 92. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"I think it's refreshing in an age where there's so much bring-home-the-bacon for your district, he's been so disciplined with money," Mr. Cohen said. ❋ Unknown (2009)