Money for Nothing
Well, never mind that Congress is too inept to craft a passable immigration-reform bill, even though the need for some kind of reform couldn't be more clear. Neither that august body's ineptitude nor its dismal public-approval ratings -- 14 percent, according to Pew -- was enough to dissuade our pols from taking a pay raise. In its typical backwards way of doing things, the House voted yesterday against not giving itself a raise -- that is, it voted for a pay hike -- $4,400 per pol, bumping up salaries to about $170k a year.
Only politicians could think: "Hmmm, we do nothing, and our constituents hate us. Clearly we deserve more money!"
Ah, remember when Democrats were promising that things would be different when they took over, that we'd get a more honest, less self-serving government?
Remember the immortal words of The Who: "Meet the new boss -- same as the old boss."
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