After Matt Drudge busted the Department of the Treasury for trying to hire a contract humorist for the Bureau of Public Debt (New motto: 11.6 trillion reasons to smile!) senators were outraged http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/senator-quashes-treasurys-bid-for-humorist-2009-07-17.html over the waste. It also came after lawmakers gave the Social Security Administration a whipping for having a $700,000 managers’ retreat at a posh Phoenix resort.

But let the branch of government without sin cast the first stone.