Politicians love pork, and they won't let the administration take it off the menu without a fight. One of the fighters is Rep. Mark Souder, who has been "on a verbal rampage against the Bush administration and what he sees as its lax, slack and out of whack attack on drugs." Souder thinks the president has been soft on drugs. Yet the real problem, according to Souder, is sin.

"I, as a Christian, believe the source problem is sin,” he said in a speech on the floor of the House. “You do not get rid of sin. There is nothing in the Bible that suggests sin is going to disappear. If you want to call it something else that is a struggle when you start to get addicted to an illegal substance, fine, call it that; but it is basically do not ask me why we cannot get rid of drug use in the United States and not ask the same question about rape, spouse abuse and child abuse and other things we struggle with. We never get rid of them."

Souder seems to think that sin can be controlled if we spend enough federal dollars on law enforcement. Perhaps he'll next propose federal funding of churches to help turn around the sinners.

Sinful or not, if local communities think drug enforcement should be a priority, those communities should pay for it. Communities get enough pork in the highway budget. They don't need to waste the time of federal agents on essentially local problems.