Tastemaker

The Washington Post reports: Over 5 1/2 years, Republican and Democratic lawmakers accepted nearly $50 million in trips, often to resorts and exclusive locales, from corporations and groups seeking legislative favors, according to the most comprehensive study to date on the subject of congressional travel.

From January 2000 through June 2005, House and Senate members and their aides were away from Washington for more than 81,000 days -- a combined 222 years -- on at least 23,000 trips, according to the report, issued yesterday by the nonpartisan Center for Public Integrity.

-The money is just a drop in the political glutton-bucket, some of the humongous urine-stream of squandered funds that could have been used to lift up humanity out of suffering and squalor, instead earmarked for candy for the pigs that call themselves our civil servents. It's the TIME that really bothers me. 222 years worth of wasted time, crammed into 5.5 normal human years? Eat me, you assholes.