July 31, 2005

More Budget Follies

Baltar will have to excuse my appropriation of the phrase, but we really are in the "silly season" with budgets. It's like a bunch of drunken bees in the clover fields. Work is getting done, but the delirium is just too much. There's this image in my mind of punchdrunk members of Congress, giggling over the absurdity contained in the details of spending bills.

From a roundup at Bitch Ph.D., this story from USA Today. Our fine Senator suggests there was some kind of misunderstanding. There certainly seems to be some interactive effect of the two actions: redistributing security people AND budget cuts. The real pisser, for those of us in the Ohio Valley is the veeeery last sentence, when describing the redistribution of personnel:

The big winners: Las Vegas' McCarran International Airport, Houston's Intercontinental and Los Angeles International Airport, which opened seven new security lanes this month to alleviate some of the longest lines in the USA. "It will be a great help," LAX spokesman Tom Winfrey said.
Big losers: New York's Kennedy, Pittsburgh and Portland, Ore.

So much for squeaking onto a flight if you're running late. And so much for happy passengers on USAirways. As if there weren't enough reasons to avoid flying them out of the 'burgh.

Posted by binky at July 31, 2005 04:16 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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