Yes, folks, it's true.
Deanna Boss, co-founder of the Twin Cities Tea Party, was quite frustrated to find out that Michelle Bachmann (R-MN-06) used nearly $14,000 dollars of taxpayer money to finance her "House Call on Washington" rally last November. Apparently the money was used for the stage and sound system for the anti health care bill event.
Boss said she would have preferred that private donors had financed the event, given her and other activists' criticism of excessive government spending. "I mean, we're broke," she said, referring to the national debt. "Every penny counts here."
I agree. It's one thing if the Democrats do it. I mean, everyone expects them to spend money. But having a rally whose central theme is vilifying excessive government spending and paying for it with....excessive government spending strikes me as total bullshit.
It's sort of like a movement of people being anti-tax and knowing nothing about taxes:)
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It is called damning with faint praise - well, the Democrats are whores but at least they aren't hypocrites too. The best part is that you didn't really intend it that way.
You're absolutely right, that's flatly unacceptable. Why that's over 40% of the amount Tim Geithner cheated the government out of, before he was made Treasury Secretary and put in charge of the IRS. That's nearly 1/8 of what Tom Daschle cheated the government out of, back before he was nominated to be Treasury Secretary and be put in charge of the IRS.
Oh wait, those things didn't bother you as much as this does though, did they?
I guess never mind then.
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