Dakota Beacon

I was not sure that there was a point in the lunacy of Federal Government spending the was just too much for Byron Dorgan. But, I am proud to point out that there was according to The Hill:

The chairman of the Senate Democratic Policy Committee quashed an effort by the Treasury Department to hire a cartoonist after the link to the job ad was posted on the Drudge Report.

Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-N.D.) contacted the Treasury Department to complain after Matt Drudge’s website linked to a want ad for contractors with the “ability to create cartoons on the spot about [Bureau of the Public Debt] jobs.”

The cartoonist was sought to provide presentations for the bureau’s management meetings, according to the ad.

“The contractor shall conduct two, 3-hour Humor in the Workplace programs that will discuss the power of humor in the workplace [and] the close relationship between humor and stress,” the ad stated.

It is great that there are some spending that Senator Dorgan cannot abide:

“Of all the agencies, the Bureau of Public Debt should know that there is very little that is funny about today’s economic conditions,” Dorgan said in a statement. “I understand the need for motivation in the workplace, but I think we have a greater motivation to save the taxpayers some money.”

There is HOPE that he will carefully consider the government takeover of health care AND try to CHANGE America away from that terrible idea.

Anyway it feels kind of weird but when it is due, BRAVO BYRON!