Same As the Old Boss Yada Yada...

Here is a great CNN report on the incredibly expensive, yet typical, boondoggle trips that our elected Sausage Factory Workers take at our expense under the bogus pretext of government business. The report fingers Rep. Bennie Thompson for a trip to "the Caribbean" where he stayed at the posh Caneel Bay Resort. The reporter questions the propriety of this stay directly to Rep. Thompson, taking the view that it was excessively luxurious. Rep. Thompson responds that it was the only place on the island that had availability. That claim is exactly as risible as it appears to you and me and the reporter left it at that. However, what the report failed to tell us is what "island" in "the Caribbean" this Caneel Bay resort is on. It happens to be on St. John. St. John is a truly lovely place, but let's get serious, there is absolutely nothing going on there; and, there can be no possible way that any government business sufficient to require the close attention of a US congressman could take place there. No way, no how. This was a shameless boondoggle. Shameless and corrupt.