Of Jets, Voyeurs and Back Wax

Our challenge today is to discuss politicians who get in trouble for extravagant spending, and to do it without mentioning the Republican National Committee’s expense-account party at the bondage club.

OK! Go Gail!

Beyond that important life lesson, this story doesn’t seem worth getting upset about unless you happen to be a donor to the R.N.C. Others might actually prefer to see the money go to topless dancers rather than Michele Bachmann.

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" Most right-thinking Americans know, deep down, that if they were given the choice between their normal airport experience or private jet, they would go for their own personal Cessna in a flash. Spending $1,000 for a haircut, on the other hand, just seems like an obscene waste. And hiring your latest squeeze to follow you around making videos, the way John Edwards did, is not something most of us have ever really daydreamed about."

Of Jets, Voyeurs and Back Wax

Fascinating that you feel free to compare the unimaginable debt being amassed by the president and his congressional fellow travelers with the peccadilloes of a few individual Republicans (and Democrats). If the purpose of this admittedly amusing piece is to cast scorn upon those who call that debt into question by pointing out that a very few people have the means to squander their (and others') money, then you strike a disingenuous cord.

More hot water please, this tea bag wants to go another round.