] "The Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center has been
] listed among the top 'pork' projects in the 2005
] 'Omnibus' Appropriations bill by Citizens Against
] Government Waste (CAGW), Taxpayers for Common Sense,
] Congressman Jeff Flake (R-AZ), and numerous members of
] the national media. In response (and because neither
] CAGW, Taxpayers for Common Sense, or Rep. Flake bothered
] to seek an explanation of the project from the Discovery
] Center or Rep. Peterson before calling it 'pork'),
] Punxsutawney Phil has woken up early from "hibernation"
] and will travel to the nationâ??s Capitol on Tuesday to
] defend the Weather Discovery Center!"

Remember that movie _GroundHog Day_ starring Bill Murray as Phil Connors the TV weather man who constantly has to relive one day over and over again? Boy that driving quadraped was pretty funny and humble back then.

I guess big city livin has changed him (visit his website at: http://www.groundhog.org/). Now he's all lobbying congress for a big weather center. Pretty ambitious for a Marmota monax who never went to college and has to audacity to claim he has the ability to divine the coming year's weather.