I Know! Let’s buy 3 private jets for Congress!

If the Tea Party movement rubbed a lantern and a genie popped out, our first wish would be that Nancy Pelosi would do something really, really stupid.  (I mean, besides picking a fight with the CIA.)  But even in the genie fantasy, I can’t imagine a  PR homerun like this one:

House Orders Up Three Elite Jets (Roll Call)

At the end of July, the House approved nearly $200 million for the Air Force to buy three elite Gulfstream jets for ferrying top government officials and Members of Congress.

The Air Force had asked for one Gulfstream 550 jet (price tag: about $65 million) as part of an ongoing upgrade of its passenger air service.

But the House Appropriations Committee, at its own initiative, added to the 2010 Defense appropriations bill another $132 million for two more airplanes and specified that they be assigned to the D.C.-area units that carry Members of Congress, military brass and top government officials.

Because the Appropriations Committee viewed the additional aircraft as an expansion of an existing Defense Department program, it did not treat the money for two more planes as an earmark, and the legislation does not disclose which Member had requested the additional money.

I am so giddy with sarcastic excitement that my fingers are hitting all the wrong keys here, folks.  At the same time, I’m in infuriated that my fellow Americans have sent so many dimwitted, airheaded, thought-starved elitists to this Congress.  We should be ashamed of ourselves. 

How stupid and hypocritical was it?  Check out what Congress had to say last year about auto execs flying in private jets (Wall Street Journal):

The issue of CEOs of ailing auto makers flying around on corporate jets remained stuck in the craw of members of Congress, several of whom called the perk “arrogant.”

“It’s almost like seeing a guy show up at the soup kitchen in a high hat and tuxedo,” Rep. Gary Ackerman (D., N.Y.) told the gathered executives.

How easily we turn the tables.  This Congress and its predecessor have done some magic to the US deficit:

Sorry, folks, this is just too damn perfect. It’s like taking credibility from Congressman.  They have to be setting us up for something.  Go see what Gateway Pundit has to say.