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Wednesday, March 31, 2010

And these are the people you want back in Washington, cutting spending?

From the Open Secrets blog today:

"RNC's Strip Club Expense Just One of Multitude of Party-Related Travel and Entertainment Costs"

First there was George W. Bush, Mr. "I'm Conservative" (but not really), who boosted spending and debt absurdly, wrecked the economy with his Ayn Rand "let's not regulate business" nonsense, now this.

You're heard about this, right? It seems the Republicans just recently spent almost $2,000.00 of RNC (Republican National Committee) money "for expenses at this bondage-themed strip club where topless female dancers are reported to simulate sex acts, act out S&M scenes and dangle from the ceiling."

Man, I love these hypocrites.

Of course, after the fact, they're going to see to it the money is paid back and they're firing the staffer that okayed it but hey, the damage is done, boys.

It turns out, the $2,000.00 isn't the least of it.

"Entertainment- and travel-related costs aren't, however, unique to Republicans. Both the RNC and its Democratic counterpart, the Democratic National Committee, sometimes spend lavishly on travel, catering, resorts and hotel accommodations."

(See the associated data at the link at the bottom of this post.)

And the Washington insiders--of both parties--wonder why there's such an uproar in the country and why we're calling out for turning all these people out and starting all over again.

Get a clue, boys and girls.

Link to original post here:
http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2010/03/rnc-strip-club-expense.html

2 comments:

Sevesteen said...

Crony capitalism isn't capitalism, and Bush isn't Randian. Rand would have made a better president than Bush, (although just about anyone would have...) and Bush was much better at fiction. I feel it is my duty as a libertarian to read Atlas Shrugged, but if I manage to finish it, it is a strong contender so far for the worst book I've read voluntarily.

Mo Rage said...

Ayn Rand has been soundly, I believe, proven unquestionably, undeniably, tragically wrong in her assumptions and beliefs, both in academia and the "real world" of business and economics.

mr