What I want to know is this: where are all the Alabama Tea-baggers to complain about Alabama Senator Richard Shelby and others wanting to spend a half-billion dollars on shiny new jets for them to ferry members and spouses around. The Wall Street Journal reports on the money and the Shelby connection, and you know it must be outrageous if the WSJ, of all papers, sees it as such. Shelby is taking a group to Europe for three weeks this month. That's during the same time that regular Alabamians are taking "staycations" on the front porch! Come on tea-baggers! Where are the rallies and complaints? Or are they only aimed at Obama initiatives?
[UPDATE: 8/10/09 evening...the House reverses course and will buy just ONE jet, as in the original budget. I can't locate any comment from Senator Shelby.]
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What I want to know is this: where are all the Alabama Tea-baggers to complain about Alabama Senator Richard Shelby and others wanting to spend a half-billion dollars on shiny new jets for them to ferry members and spouses around. The Wall Street Journal reports on the money and the Shelby connection, and you know it must be outrageous if the WSJ, of all papers, sees it as such. Shelby is taking a group to Europe for three weeks this month. That's during the same time that regular Alabamians are taking "staycations" on the front porch! Come on tea-baggers! Where are the rallies and complaints? Or are they only aimed at Obama initiatives?
[UPDATE: 8/10/09 evening...the House reverses course and will buy just ONE jet, as in the original budget. I can't locate any comment from Senator Shelby.]
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Maybe the tea bag folks read the Columbia Journalism Review, which pours a lot of water on this WSJ story and calls it misleading.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.cjr.org/the_audit/journal_misleads_congress_jets.php
Reporting issues aside (though I think the CJR author illustrates some important omissions/contradictions), I perceive this issue to be more about the role that lawmakers have corollary to their public law-making/spending powers.
ReplyDeleteCongress sets a budget in general and specific terms, including one for their own use. But who's watching over their budgetary authorizations?
In other words, who's watching the folks that should be watching?