If any more evidence were needed that our government is run by a bunch of shameless, arrogant, lickspittles, the fact that the FAA has approved the plan to give money to an airport named after Pork King Rep. John Murtha should remove all doubts.We blogged about this albatross a few weeks ago. It costs the taxpayer about $147 for every passenger who uses the facility. Since there are less than two dozen flights that take off every day, one wonders where Murtha found the chutzpah to secure more than $150 million in earmarks for the facility over the last decade.Now, this little used airport will be the recipient of federal stimulus money according to a story by Carol Leonnig in the Washington Post: The Federal Aviation Administration, after reviewing concerns about a project at a regional airport named after  Rep. John P. Murtha (D-Pa.), has decided to go forward with plans to use $800,000 in stimulus funds to repave the airport's alternate runway. Late this afternoon, a...(Read Full Post)