Penney stake and regime change have been a more pathetic boondoggle than any Herbalife distributorship.
Ethanol, or more property government moonshine, is a huge boondoggle that harms human beings besides.
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Far too much money has been spent on boondoggle projects of one sort or another.
That boondoggle stands in direct contrast to the tremendous success of the Great Northern Railroad.
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Sick of watching your hard-earned dollars get incinerated supporting one egregious boondoggle after another?
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And because these special interests were so powerful, this boondoggle survived year after year, Congress after Congress.
So it's a little rich that this great referee boondoggle is entirely self-inflicted, built at the top.
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Conservatives said that government spending did not strengthen the infrastructure of the economy but only produced "boondoggle" projects.
That would be the most dangerous boondoggle in history, with little control over 2, 000 tons of radioactive garbage yearly.
If real life beckons, leave swaying grasslands behind, finishing this bird-watching boondoggle at I-10 with a short drive west to Tucson.
At least the Solyndra boondoggle ended when it went out of business.
There's actually a boon in the otherwise Medicare-drug-benefit boondoggle: Health Savings Accounts.
However, the currently renewed ethanol boondoggle is an indicator that sensibility and reason can quickly loose in the battle with lobbying and pork.
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But he seems almost guilty to confess that something which is widely seen as a FEMA boondoggle has actually been good for his town.
"While the former athletes' village turned out to be a boondoggle, the Olympics spurred construction along False Creek that has done very well, " said Campbell.
But can Heiligendamm amount to more than just a Baltic boondoggle?
Ending or relaxing the biodiesel mandate will end the food-for-fuel boondoggle.
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This was a manifest boondoggle, but Mr Fujimori's friends in Congress duly pushed it through, and when some of the constitutional judges disagreed he sacked them.
The biggest single boondoggle is money for high speed rail.
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This year and last year, snowpack is higher than usual, which means somebody is sitting on a hydropower boondoggle and is unwilling to let wind farm operators get in the way.
The lottery is to be managed by the National Stadium and School Health Centre of Japan, a boondoggle run by the education ministry to provide cushy jobs for its retiring bureaucrats.
Who lobbies for and benefits from the biodiesel boondoggle?
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This outrageous boondoggle can be traced to public-sector unions.
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National health care is shut down as a wasteful socialist mistake, boondoggle subsidies for alternative energy are eliminated, and the savings are used to justify huge tax cuts for high income earners.
From taxes to entitlement reform the President has been MIA on nearly every major domestic initiative with the exception of his trillion dollar healthcare boondoggle that a majority of Americans now want repealed.
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It had been an exciting but sluggish contest, owing partly to the unavoidable torpor that accompanies televised football, but mostly because of the persistent confusion brought by the NFL's great 2012 boondoggle: replacement officials.
This has traditionally been a feeble body of pen-pushers under a mild-mannered secretary-general, usually a senior regional official rewarded with the post as the crowning boondoggle in a career of not rocking the boat.
If not, it will look like a boondoggle.
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