Recession be damned.
The House voted to spend $550 million on eight new jets to fly its members around yesterday.
Yes, this is the same Congress that scolded bailed-out executives for "using" taxpayer money on private planes.
The Pentagon, which manages the fleet of about two dozen aircraft used for congressional travel here and abroad, hadn't requested this many new planes and was surprised by the vote.
"We ask for what we need and only what we need," Pentagon press secretary Geoff Morrell scolded on Wednesday. "We've always frowned upon earmarks and additives that are above and beyond what we ask for."
According to the Wall Street Journal, the House Appropriations Committee explained away the new purchases by saying they were much-needed replacements for aging jets, and also a necessary expansion of passenger capacity.
There goes our tax dollars at work.
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